Paul Kaiser (Collaborator) openendedgroup.com
Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer. He freely admits that his visual workis all about drawing, but he himself cannot draw; that it often entails dance,though he has neither dance training nor ability; that it explores complex spatialarrangements in 3D despite his having no sense of direction and little knowledgeof geometry; and that it often relies on highly advanced custom code, of which hehimself cannot program a single line.
Despite but also because of these limitations, Kaiser has created a significantbody of work for stage, gallery, screen, and public space. Most works have been incollaboration with others, primarily with OpenEndedGroup colleague Marc Downie(and formerly Shelley Eshkar), but sometimes extending to other noteworthyartists. New York audiences may remember BIPED (1999) with Merce Cunningham;Ghostcatching and After Ghostcatching (1999, 2010) with Bill T. Jones; and howlong… (2007) with Trisha Brown.
With OpenEndedGroup, Kaiser has recently explored the farther reaches of 3Dimage creation. New Yorkers may have seen Ulysses in the Subway (with Ken andFlo Jacobs, 2016) and six earlier 3D films at MoMA; Into the Forest (with musicianTom Chiu, 2011), an interactive installation at the Museum of the Moving Image; andUpending (with Flux Quartet, 2011) at the New York Film Festival.A few honors have rewarded Kaiser’s work. In 1996, he was the first digital artist to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2008 he received the John Cage Awardfrom the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
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