Open Call: Female Animator self portraits
StopTrik x Animated Women
Deadline: 13. 9. 2021
Animated Women aims to give established and emerging female-identifying animators a broader display. An exhibition that showcases, celebrates and elevates female excellence in animation with animated self-portraits of professional artists from around the world. Shifting this old practice of self-portraiture into modern times of pocket computers, and combining animation practice with the latest technology. The Animated Women portraits are pushing and expanding the traditional, curious, playful and fun to discover, the portraits come to life with an augmented reality layer.
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Manu Weiss is a XR creative director, curator and multidisciplinary artist.
After a degree in design and animation, she worked in various positions in the field of audiovisual media as a director, animator, and compositor for animated shorts, video mapping, commercials, games and feature films. Manu Weiss is also a founding member of multiple animation networks, and organizer of industry events and workshops for students and professionals in the creative industry. With the new era of augmented and virtual reality, multiple curated immersive media exhibitions and festivals followed. Manu Weiss is an avid advocate of new technologies, art, animation and storytelling.