After Ghostcatching: Augmenting Bill T. Jones with 3D

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

Courtesy of Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar

June 20, 2010 - January 2, 2011 - After Ghostcatching will be on exhibit at SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, entitled The Dissolve. Curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco, the 2010 biennial brings together artists working in many visual mediums who have mined techniques of early animation and moving image technologies to create a hybrid practice where the homespun meets the high-tech. As a part of this international exhibit where the old-fashioned melds with the futuristic, OpenEnded Group (Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, and Marc Downie) creates a new edition of the original virtual dance installation, likened to “calligraphy twisting in space” by The Village Voice. After Ghostcatching augments the 1999 version with 3D graphics and cutting-edge technology to further play with perceptions of Jones’ moving figure. This time, as viewers don their glasses, they experience the virtual movement in real depth.

Says Paul Kaiser, “These advances will contribute to a far more immersive and beautiful version of Ghostcatching. And the one advance that will draw the most attention is the stereoscopic illusion (3D). This will put Bill’s ghostly figure in a space that seems at times to hover within hand's reach of the viewers; indeed, viewers may even feel lines of the drawing brushing against their foreheads.” For more information about the biennial, visit thedissolve.net.