The OpenEnded Group is a

digital art Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

collective comprising Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser. They are known for their 3D visualizations, advances in dance technology (especially

motion-capture Motion capture (sometimes referred as mocap or mo-cap, for short) is the process of recording high-resolution movement of objects or people into a computer system. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for val ...

non-photorealistic rendering Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is an area of computer graphics that focuses on enabling a wide variety of expressive styles for digital art, in contrast to traditional computer graphics, which focuses on photorealism. NPR is inspired by other ...

, and the use of

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

in art. Their work has been displayed by the Museum of the Modern Image,

Museum of the Moving Image The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Am ...

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Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

,Sundance (2011)
/ref> the New York Film Festival,New York Film Festival (2010)
/ref> and the

Sadler's Wells Theatre Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site. Sadler's Wells grew out of a late 17th-century pleasure garden and was opened as a theatre buil ...

Sadler's Wells
/ref> among other venues. In dance, the OpenEnded Group has collaborated with prominent choreographers to create both installation art and stage pieces. With

Merce Cunningham Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other discipl ...

, they created ''Hand-drawn Spaces'', which was fully restored in 2009 to a higher resolution (thanks to new funding) (1998),Mahoney, Diana Phillips (May 1998) "Let's Dance" in ''Computer Graphics World'' ''BIPED'' (1999),Kisselgoff, Anna (April 6, 2001),
A Live and Digital Tapestry Of Interwoven Movements" in ''The New York Times''
/ref> and ''Loops'' (2001–2008); with

Bill T. Jones William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952), is an American Choreography, choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The company's home in Manhattan. J ...

, they created ''Ghostcatching'' (1999) Bunn, Austin (January 5, 1999),
Losing the Body: What happens when you separate the dancer from the dance?"
in ''The Village Voice'' ''22'' (2005), and "After Ghostcatching" (2011); and with

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her danc ...

, they created ''how long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume...''(2005).Jowitt, Deborah (April 12, 2005),
Life and Death Matter"
in ''The Village Voice'' The OpenEnded Group has also created many large public art installations. ''Pedestrian'' (2002) projected virtual figures directly on city sidewalks.Adamson, Loch (February 10, 2002),

in ''The New York Times Magazine'' Successive commissions by the

Mostly Mozart Festival The Mostly Mozart Festival was an American classical music festival based in New York City. Venues The festival presented concerts with its resident ensemble, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, principally at David Geffen Hall of the Lincoln ...

of Lincoln Center placed two works outside Avery Fisher Hall: ''Enlightenment '' (2006) Canemaker, John (Sept/Oct 2006), “Thinking Images” i
''Print Magazine''
/ref> and ''Breath'' (2007). ''Recovered Light'' (2007) illuminated the eastern facade of the

York Minster York Minster, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, is an Anglicanism, Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. The minster is the seat of the archbishop of York, the second-highest of ...

with live reconstructions of the underlying stained glass.Gascoigne, Laura (January 2, 2007)
“And the Lord said: Let there be a light show”
in ''The Times'' In 2008, The OpenEnded Group initiated the Field project, an open source integrated development environment for making digital artworks. Concurrently it released the code base for its collaboration with

, ''Loops'', as open source, with Cunningham issuing a Creative Commons license for the underlying motion-capture data of his performance.Parkins, Cameron (February 22, 2008)
“Loops: Solo Dance, CC-Licensed”
Creative Commons. The OpenEnded Group is supported by the National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (August 2010)
/ref> and the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities.Spatializing Photographic Archives (Winter 2011)
/ref>

References

External links

The OpenEnded Group website

Field - open source authoring environment website
* Lincoln Center'
"microsite"
for ''Breath'' (2008) {{DEFAULTSORT:The Openended Group American digital artists