with Katina Bitsicas, Open Air Media Festival 2024 Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, May 23, 7:30-9:30 pm (rain date: Friday May 24)
at PS1 Close House (538 S. Gilbert)
free and open to the public, but donations are welcome!
This interactive workshop demonstrates the process and digital tools used to create a projection mapped video display, with the historic Close House as our canvas. Projection mapping is a technique that is utilized across many industries such as sporting arenas and theme parks, but many times isn’t easily identifiable by the viewer. This workshop will shed some "light" on the process of projection mapping and the magic that can happen with the flip of a switch.
Katina will guide participants through the process of selecting and editing their video, conforming the video to the house's architecture, combining multiple video clips into the same projection field, and finally displaying the videos together for a public presentation of the projection mapped community quilt onto the Close House.
What to bring to workshop:
Participants are asked to bring a short 10-20-second video clip to the workshop (phone recordings are fine) that they would like to incorporate into the projected community quilt. After the workshop, there will be a question-and-answer segment to encourage open dialogue and conversation while viewing the community's artwork.
Participation in the workshop is limited to the first 20 registrants; however, viewing the projection mapped quilt in front of the Close House is open to the public from 9:00-9:30pm and does not require registration.
This workshop, as part of the 2024 Open Air Media Festival, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. PS1’s workshops are also supported by the Community Foundation of Johnson County and the Johnson County Quality of Life Block Grant.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Katina Bitsicas is a Greek-American new media artist who utilizes video, installation, AR, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show, PULSE Art Fair, Satellite Art Fair, Superchief Gallery NFT, Plexus Projects, the Wheaton Biennial curated by Legacy Russell, CADAF: Digital Art Month Paris, Torrance Art Museum, Westbeth Gallery, New York, Eye’s Walk Festival, Syros, Greece, 57th Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece, HereArt in New York, Art in Odd Places in Orlando, Digital Graffiti Festival, and the St. Louis International Film Festival. In 2022, her artist book Luci: The Girl with Four Hearts was published with Flower Press.
Katina received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Baccalaureate from SACI in Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri, where she also conducts research with the MU School of Medicine on utilizing digital storytelling as a meaning-making intervention for bereaved family members. This collaborative research has been published in Death Studies, OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying, and the Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care.