will be previewed at DMCA event
Renowned digital artist Paul Kaiser will discuss "Evoking Body and Mind" on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art & Architecture Building, corner of York and Chapel streets.
Part of the Digital Media Center of the Arts' Electronic Currents Lecture Series, the program is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Architecture Gallery.
"Evoking Body and Mind" explores Kaiser's collaborations in virtual dance and motion-capture with choreographers Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe and Bill T. Jones, as well as his evocations of the mental spaces of learning disabled children, famed theater artist Robert Wilson and Kaiser himself. He will also preview his works "Blind side" and "Pedestrian."
Kaiser's early work from 1975 to 1981 was in experimental filmmaking and voice audiotapes. During the following ten years, he taught students with severe learning disabilities, collaborating with them in the making of multimedia depictions of their own minds. This work earned him a Computer World/Smithsonian Award in 1991. In 1996, Kaiser became the first interactive artist to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1998 and 1999, Kaiser created the virtual dances "Hand-drawn Spaces" and "BIPED" with Cunningham and Shelley Eshkar, and "Ghostcatching" with Jones and Eshkar. Recent solo works include "Flicker-track" and "Verge." His forthcoming works include "Pedestrian," a public art installation created in collaboration with Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut and Eshkar, and "Blind side," an installation for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Kaiser teaches a class on digital film at Wesleyan University. His work has been exhibited at various venues in the United States and Europe.
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