ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century

Alternative Autobiographies Digital Limnings: Miniature Memories Experiments in Digital Limnings Loops Portrait of Cati Security By Julia XXXXIII Strangers to Ourselves Telephone Story: A Portrait This Voice Anywhere Van Eyck's Mirror

Loops 2001 Photo by Webb Chappell Merce Cunningham born 1919 lives and works in New York, New York Marc Downie born 1977 lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts Shelley Eshkar born 1970 lives and works in New York, New York Paul Kaiser born 1956 lives and works in New York, New York Music excerpts from Cunningham "Events" by Takehisa Kosugi Motion capture by Modern Uprising Studios Interactive Digital Projection This digital portrait of Merce Cunningham is derived from a motion-captured recording of Loops, his solo dance for hands and fingers. The motion-captured joints have become nodes in a network that sets them into fluctuating relationships with one another, at times suggesting the hands underlying them, but more often depicting complex cat's-cradle variations. This presentation of this work registers the entry, presence, or exit of viewers by perturbing the algorithmic imagery, and from time to time one hears Merce speak.