CURRENT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Shadows In Stereo: A large-scale 3D shadow immersive, interactive installation. TOURING NOW.
Exploring Depth Through Light: Stereoscopic Shadowgrams in Contemporary Art and Research
Inverting Ziegfeld’s Follie-Scope: Creating a Post-Male-Gaze 3D Spectacle in A.R.
Analog as Nature: An Interdisciplinary Media Installation Reflecting on Media, Ecology, and AI. In development.
ART THAT INVESTIGATES HOW EARLY MEDIA INFORMS OUR DIGITAL FUTURE.
SHADOWS IN STEREO
ANALOG • ANAGLYPH • IMMERSIVE • INTERACTIVE • STEREOSCOPIC 3D • REALTIME/IRL INSTALLATION • MEET YOUR GIANT SHADOW IN CUBIC SPACE • NO COMPUTERS WERE USED TO MAKE THIS ART
SHADOWS IN STEREO is an interactive installation filled with spinning shapes and colored lights that offers a tactile experience of meeting one’s own shadow. An uncanny sense of somatic dislocation emerges as your shadow-double stands beside you in cubic space. Using custom-built lighting instruments of her own design, Marie produces large-scale shadows—up to 40 feet—in real time, with inherent motion tracking –all without the use of a computer.
ANTIQUATED
AUGMENTED REALITY
"Dancers inhabit an immersive 3D world brought to life through refreshingly analog means."
–HYPERALLERGIC
"Marie’s work reminds all visitors of the power in exploring all manners of reality modification."
–COOL HUNTING
"Still holding onto her cardboard 3-D glasses, Marie said she began experimenting with the
technique long before "Avatar."
I'm way ahead of James Cameron," she said with a laugh.
–LA TIMES
Visual intimacy. Ontological form. Real-time 3D.
Pioneering a non-digital, reimagined pre-cinematic stereo imaging technique, this exquisite ensemble of dancers appears to achieve the impossible—reaching beyond the frame. Their vivid choreography, set against a powerful score, creates a lasting impression as stunning, 30-foot-tall figures come to life.
Director: Christine Marie
Producer: Nion McEvoy
Dancers: Taylor Unwin, Sandra Ruiz, Melissa Ferrari.
In ANTIQUATED AUGMENTED REALITY, a flat feminine form transforms into a fully dimensional presence as she steps off and out of a screen. In this expanded media event, artist Christine Marie transforms a 2D shadow into 3D, while enacting a symbolic, kinetic departure from the media’s male gaze.
Engaging with the Fordist notion of the feminine form as a mass-produced consumer object, the work establishes choreographed, repetitive movements that are disrupted as the performer reaches into the z-axis—creating moments of intimacy and agency as she seemingly “touches” the audience.
AUGMENTED REALITY
(antiquated)
ANALOG AS NATURE
IN DEVELOPMENT
ANALOG AS NATURE explores environmental precarity through the interplay of analog and digital imagery projected onto the surfaces of a 10-foot cube. Marie harnesses the theatricality of light and shadow, layering collages of moving film and photographic transparencies cast from below to form natural landscapes. Over time, they are disrupted by oversaturated, AI-generated digital projections mounted from above that depict climate-induced disasters such as rising tides and wildfires.
Analog versus digital. Nature versus destruction. The convergence and clash of these visuals invite viewers to reflect on the fragility of our environment and the profound consequences of unchecked technological advancement.
"CHRISTINE MARIE is an inventor of analog that intentionally uses the dispersion of shadow to speak silent poems. She makes color that the fortuitous eye absorbs into the body as emotion. She has the audacity to disrupt light, and to weave a timelessness into its shaped absence, to wordlessly make a story of ambition and migration out of negative space."
PROGRAM NOTES FROM YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
ORIGINAL WORK | DESIGN & COLLABORATIONS
