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SAM ROLFES, L'Enfant terrible of new media & digital arts

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American artist Sam Rolfes plays musical chairs, switching between the roles of an experimental electronic musician, 3-D animator, VR performer, graphic designer, director and also a writer. His animations are improvised, his collaborations unconventional, while his performances are ever-more-complex thanks to his extra-experimental use of technology. He is also a co-founder of -the now-defunct- art and music collective Join The Studio and digital performance and image studio Team Rolfes; collaboratively with his brother Andy or his own, Rolfes works with VR, mixed reality, figurative animation and motion capture tools to create music videos, video games or live improvisational performances. Rolfes’ surreal imagery, sometimes sublime and often psychosexual, explores human identity through contemporary computer-based image-making. Visceral, colour-saturated, full of moist flesh, taking place in wonderlands or in hell, his videos permeate the screen with juicy environments overflowing w

Interview by Agata Kik American artist Sam Rolfes plays musical chairs, switching between the roles of an experimental electronic musician, 3-D animator, VR performer, graphic designer, director and also a writer. His animations are improvised, his collaborations unconventional, while his performances are ever-more-complex thanks to his extra-experimental use of technology. He is also a co-founder of -the now-defunct- art and music collective Join The Studio and digital performance and image studio Team Rolfes; collaboratively with his brother Andy or his own, Rolfes works with VR, mixed…

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