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Shadows in Stereo An immersive and interactive 3-D stereo imaging experience, Shadows in Stereo questions what role analog techniques play amid digital technology and modern storytelling. Shadows in Stereo is an analog, 3-D stereo imaging experience. Accompanied by a team of performers and dancers, artist Christine Marie uses handmade lights, simple objects, and wire sculpture to cast 30-foot shadows onto walls, ceilings, and floors. Guests wear red-blue anaglyph eyewear which makes the shadows appear three-dimensional, including the guests’ shadows as they wander about the space. Marie and her team create performances inspired by found 3-D film footage including scenes from James Cameron’s Avatar and 1980s NASA VR simulations. Shadows in Stereo questions what role analog techniques play amid digital technology and modern storytelling, creating an alternative visual space of discovery and exploration. Workshops culminate with a final performance. Collaborators include a choreographer, composer, cinematographer, and students from SFAI and CCA. Marie’s Shadows in Stereo, along with Turntable Drawings: Danny Clay and Jon Fischer, are a series of interactive workshops and performances in conjunction with Stories: Philip-Lorca diCorcia & Constance DeJong, MFA’s Spring 2018 exhibition. Free and open to the public, these live experiments revisit the 20th century technologies of augmented reality (Marie) and vinyl records (Clay, Fischer). They invite visitors to participate in a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.

Turntable Drawings: Danny Clay and Jon Fischer An exploration of vinyl records as sculptural and sonic prints, Turntable Drawings invites guest artists from various disciplines and students to interact with the soundscape. Turntable Drawings is a collaboration between composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer. The pair play a collection of custom-made records for interactive performance events, exploring vinyl as sculptural and sonic prints. Clay and Fischer manufacture records imprinted with mathematical textures, original recorded materials, and direct casts of existing LPs that include some of history’s earliest recorded sounds. Turntable Drawings places records and turntables in MFA’s main gallery for invited artists and visitors to browse and play. Clay and Fischer conduct a “turntable orchestra,” inviting guest artists from various disciplines (music, visual art, performance, creative writing) and students to interact with the soundscape. Clay and Fischer’s Turntable Drawings, along with Christine Marie’s Shadows in Stereo, are a series of interactive workshops and performances in conjunction with Stories: Philip-Lorca diCorcia & Constance DeJong, MFA’s Spring 2018 exhibition. Free and open to the public, these live experiments revisit the 20th century technologies of vinyl records (Clay, Fischer) and augmented reality (Marie). They invite visitors to participate in a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.