Crossings, 2010

The OpenEnded Group - New York City, USA

Video Installation, Digital Animation

The night-time crowds drawn to Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will find their foot traffic oddly echoed by virtual figures projected onto the canted walls of the Royal Ontario Museum's Crystal façade. The contours and planes of the architecture, activated by the animation, will set the boundaries and surfaces by which the clambering figures must find their way. Sometimes the figures will wrap around the bends in the faceted façade or suddenly find themselves mirrored, magnified, or transformed on a nearby or distant facet. At other times the figures will seem to have penetrated the architecture and will be seen, x-ray-like, inside it. Occasionally a figure or two will ascend to the top, as if climbing into the sky.

Crossings is a site-specific work that will be precisely aligned to the architecture of the Crystal by means of Field, the OpenEnded Group's software environment that underpins all of their creations and that is available for use by others as open source.