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Join Post Image and the Immersive Storytelling Studio for an immersive workshop led by intermedia composer and pianist Jarosław Kapuściński.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
In this workshop participants will delve into the VR project, Point Line Piano. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore 18 different immersive environments, each designed to redefine your experience of music, visuals and gestural interaction. As participants create their own audiovisual flows, we will discuss the principles behind the interactive architecture of each environment and their unique pathways. The focus will be on understanding the music-like narrativity of the project, moving beyond traditional text-based frameworks to explore how audiovisual elements come together to tell a different kind of story.
Point Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating, playing, and listening. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument.
ABOUT JAROSŁAW KAPUŚCIŃSKI:
Jarosław Kapuściński is a Polish-born intermedia composer and pianist. He presented his works at numerous art and music venues worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, National Arts Centre in Canada, EMPAC, ZKM, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has received awards at the UNESCO Film sur l’Art Festival in Paris, the VideoArt Festival in Locarno, and the International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal. Kapuściński has lectured internationally and is currently Associate Professor at Stanford University.
https://jaroslawkapuscinski.com/
Coauthors and collaborators on the project:
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 MoMA, Lincoln Center, the Barbican, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hayward Gallery, Sadler’s Wells, 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.
: March 3, 2025
: 1-4 PM
: Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
Make sure to reserve your spot as capacity is limited!