plant in Detroit
plant will be exhibited at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, starting January 20.
The piece is a two-screen installation that explores the Packard Plant in Detroit in a painterly 3D rendering that paradoxically derives from 18,000 photographs.
Kaiser will be on hand to introduce and illustrate the methods and ideas behind plant in a presentation at the museum on January 28th at 4:30pm
Drawn together
Drawn together is an artwork in which participants will interact with artificial intelligence agents to create unforeseen and original drawings — ones whose form is in equal parts physical and virtual.
Wearing 3D glasses and headphones, you will use charcoal or pencil to start making a real drawing on a real piece of paper. When you pause, the computer will answer you by projecting 3D lines that seem to draw themselves on your paper, building upon your lines by echoing, extending, or complementing them. Your surprise at the unexpected appearance of these new marks is compounded by their seeming to float off your page, some hovering above it, some below. The amplified sounds of your drawing form the basis for electroacoustic responses matching those of the 3D projections.
This work is being created during a series of residencies at Georgia Tech this year, where we are collaborating with Gil Weinberg and several of his colleagues in architecture and industrial design (listed here).
Drawn togetherwill open on February 13; details to follow.
London premiere — Sadler’s Wells
For Sadler’s Wells in London, we recently created the 3D projections that establish the shifting visual spaces for a chamber opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage entitled Twice Through the Heart.
The opera was directed by Wayne McGregor — who also integrated our Choreographic Language Agent software into his choreographic process to create Undance which premiered in the the second half of the evening.
Recent works in digital cinema
Recently we have been showing works in full-scale digital cinema at the Lincoln Center Film Society.
For the New York Film Festival in September we presented a 50-minute version of Upending as part of the The New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant Garde series.
Upending is our longest work in 3D, the result of two years of experimental work at Empac in which we invented new approaches to that medium — ones very much at odds with those so lazily adopted by Hollywood.
This past spring the Film Society featured three of our recent 3D works in a program called Thought in Motion: 3 choreographers captured. This was part of the celebration of the new film venue it opened on 65th Street.
For this occasion, we created new versions of Loops (with Merce Cunningham) and of Stairwell(with Wayne McGregor), and we also screened the work After Ghostcatching (with Bill T. Jones).
2d excerpts of Loops and Stairwell may be viewed above. Best to watch them in Vimeo’s full-screen mode, but with scaling turned off. When viewing please try to imagine that crucial 3rd dimension, which is of course missing from these excerpts.
