UPENDING

The OpenEndedGroup - Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser - sees itself as a digital art collective that uses the defining technology of the present to produce art. The group empowers artificial intelligence as the creator/author of the artwork; it uses 3D visualization and rendering to produce images; it applies motion capture techniques to dance choreography (e.g. in collaboration with Merce Cunningham). Her audiovisual installations - which use all platforms from stage to screen, gallery, book and public space - have been performed at MoMA and the Sundance Film Festival, among others.

Upending is a work located on the threshold between abstraction and representationalism that allows the viewer to see the familiar from an unfamiliar perspective by making the familiar appear unfamiliar. The axes along which the experimental 3D film, created in 2010, operates are called orientation - disorientation - reorientation; their interplay enables the experience of how meaning is only created in the process of perception, because what is perceived creates, indeed must create, meaning. The interplay of images is accompanied by a new recording of Morton Feldman's First String Quartet, interpreted by the FLUX Quartet.