Christine Marie
Assistant Professor of Media Studyat University at Buffalo
Christine Marie is an interdisciplinary media artist creating large-scale installations, expanded cinema performances, lightboxes, and optical toys. Her work bridges antiquated media forms with contemporary technologies to investigate how early image-making practices continue to shape our digital future. Her immersive environments engage the intellect while fostering wonder, agency, and interactivity. Marie is a pioneer in live 3D stereoscopic art, using her custom-built stereoscopes to cast 40-foot anaglyph shadows, which she terms “3D Shadows” and “Antiquated Augmented Reality.” Her projects have been commissioned and presented by Sundance New Frontier, LACMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, REDCAT, and the Exploratorium, among others. She has worked as a shadow expert for DreamWorks, Pixar, The Residents, Jordan Wolfson, Pixar, and Pee-wee Herman. Her work explores industrialization, oppositional forces, centering the role of the feminine in relation to technology, labor, and the natural world. Upcoming projects include “Analog as Nature” and an automated version of her 2012 installation “Shadows In Stereo.”