Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer. He has created a body of work for stage, gallery, screen, public space, and virtual reality, crossing the borders of many disciplines. Much of his work has been in collaboration with others, primarily with OpenEndedGroup colleague Marc Downie (and formerly with Shelley Eshkar), but sometimes extending to such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, and others. His most recent commissions are a three-screen 3D installation entitled Maenads & Satyrs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (with Downie) and a VR installation entitled Pockets of Space at the Pompidou Center in Paris (with Downie and composer Natasha Barrett).
In 1996, Kaiser was the first digital artist to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 2008 he received the John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2015, MoMA acquired eight OpenEndedGroup 3D films.
It took Kaiser decades of writing for the drawer before he came up with a satisfying form for his expression. The first work to embody that form is the recently completed Among Others (still unpublished). At MacDowell he worked on a book of hallucinatory and interconnected texts entitled Seeing Around Corners.
