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Most Recent Known Affiliation:
Toronto Metropolitan University Personal Website: https://yvesal.myportfolio.com/ Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Roles: Student Competition Artist |
GENESIS INC. is a duo collective made by Yves Al-sharifi and May Yu, a team of artists working collaboratively on this project with an interest in developing future multimedia work under this identity. Yves’ practice focuses on mending writing, live performance, and sound design into multimedia works that span innovative and early 2000s digital technologies alike. Many of her inspirations are rooted in horror and liminal spaces that portray experiences not typically seen in queer contexts. May comes from a background that blends computer science and fine art. Her practice involves hacking and repurpose retro technologies and aesthetics along with programming interactive experiences through tangible and digital mediums. Together they develop interactive sound/live performances using game interfaces as methods of interaction. Commenting on technofetishism and gender identity through the lens of marginalized bodies, GENESIS INC. utilizes transgressive interactive art to assume uncomfortable, un-defined spaces that sexualized and objectified bodies populate. Assuming the facade of a corporation existing in 2000s internet culture, their work plays on the emergent ARG form of storytelling that relies on mystery, moving spaces, and dwindling paths that players can navigate through non-typical DIY approaches to storytelling and puzzles.
