Over the last two decades, digital art has become an increasingly popular profession. On Thursday, April 23, Carleton will welcome OpenEndedGroup, an art collaborative that has been producing a variety of digital works for the past ten years. At 8:00 P.M. in the Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236, the members of OpenEndedGroup will give a lecture on their art practice and describe what it takes to be an artist in the digital world.
OpenEndedGroup is a collaborative between Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser, two digital artists who have been practicing together for years. Their unique form of artwork is based in complex yet elegant computer code. Their style has been influenced by a wide range of disciplines including dance, music, installation work, and film. They have worked with dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, and other professional artists to maintain a comprehensive portfolio and reveal the beauty of all art forms. Their talents are on display in multiple public artworks, including Breath (2006-2007) and Enlightenment (2007). More examples can be found on their website.
OpenEndedGroup has recently created novel approaches to 3D projection, which has paved a new path for the field of 3D film. Both the individual artists and the group itself has won many art prizes including (but not limited to) the Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Cage Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, and a Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation.
OpenEndedGroup has displayed their work at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival, the Barbican Center, the Hayward Gallery, ICA Boston, Sadler’s Wells, the Sundance Film Festival, the MIT Media Lab, ICA London, and countless other galleries and art festivals.
If you are interested in seeing some of OpenEndedGroup’s digital films, follow this link to their Vimeo account.