Chimerik
Photo credits: Sayna Ghaderi, Carla Alcantara.
About
Chimerik 似不像 is a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary nonprofit arts organization consisting of artists from underrepresented groups (people of colour, LGBTQ2S+, immigrants, women in technology, linguistic/language minorities, neurodiverse people, youth and next generation) from various age groups, backgrounds, levels of experience, and disciplines (film/video, new media, VJ, VR, projection and lighting design, experimental music, sound art, visual arts and contemporary dance/theatre performance).
Chimerik 似不像 specializes in the audiovisual new media software Isadora and has collaborated on over 500 multi-disciplinary projects which have been exhibited internationally such as Art Night Venezia (Venice Biennale), Documenta 15, World Design Expo, Digital Arts Festival of Taipei, ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Isadora Werkstatt (Berlin), Digital Carnival Festival, Taiwan Best Design 100, Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting (TPAM), PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Vancouver New Music Festival. They have worked with Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, Stratford Festival, the frank Theatre, Aeriosa, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Wen Wei Dance, Dancers of Damelahamid and Raven Spirit Dance to name a few, along with conglomerates and influential brands such as NIKE, Microsoft, BenQ and Google in live visuals/projection design and interactive video installations. They actively empower underrepresented communities and engage in sectoral change projects such as Virtual Live Art Database & International Choreographic Interlink.



Photo credits: Carla Alcantara.
Prizes
Chrystal Dance Prize 2023; the Changemaker Award of BC Museums Association 2022; Jessie Richardson Awards 2019, 2020 and 2021/2022.