OpenEndedGroup

Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser have collaborated as OpenEndedGroup since 2001. Working in a broad variety of media and venues:, they make art for façade, gallery, dance, stage, 3D cinema, print, and virtual reality. Their works respond to a wide range of materials — drawing, film, motion capture, photography, music, and architecture. They frequently combine three signature elements: non-photorealistic 3D rendering; the incorporation of body movement by motion-capture and other means; and the autonomy of artworks directed or assisted by artificial intelligence.

OpenEndedGroup’s films, installations, stage works, and VR pieces have premiered in such venues as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Lincoln Center in New York the Barbican Centre in London, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hayward Gallery and Sadler’s Wells in London, and the Berlin, New York, and Rome film festivals. Eight of their 3D digital films were the first of their kind to enter MoMA’s permanent collection.