Material World Knight: Fight the Universe” is a video loop rendered from within Lu Yang’s computer game “The Great Adventure of Material World.” This capture is of the Material World Knight performing fighting moves. The main game character, Material World Knight, completes quests and battles enemies together with other characters drawn from the artist’s earlier works, while undergoing multiple identity transformations as the game moves beyond tropes of popular manga culture to explore the control of identity liberated from the rigid confines of nationality, gender, and sexuality. Video (color, silent)

2160 × 2430 pixels, 30 fps
40 seconds, loop
Apple ProRes 422 Standard 1 edition, 1 publisher proof