OpenEndedGroup

Marc Downie is a digital artist, experimental filmmaker, and teacher. His approach to artmaking combines three signature elements: non-photorealistic computational imagery; the incorporation of body movement by motion-capture and other means; and the autonomy of artworks directed by artificial intelligence. Over the last two decades his studio, OpenEndedGroup, has pioneered the use of motion capture in the performing arts, photogrammetry in new media and stereoscopic technologies in animation and film. His studio works in the broadest variety of contexts: making art for façade, gallery, dance, cinema and VR. In the field of dance, Downie has worked closely with Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Wayne McGregor. His public artworks include outdoor projections and performances in spaces ranging from York Minster Cathedral to Barclays Center Brooklyn. OpenEndedGroup has presented work at Lincoln Center, MoMA, Hayward Gallery, ICA Boston, Sadler’s Wells, Detroit Institute of Art, SITE Santa Fe, the film festivals of Sundance, New York, Rome, Berlin, and many others.