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Mitosis opens at the Beall Center for Art and Technology

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January 6, 2004 - New York - dotsperinch is pleased to announce the opening of the Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells at the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine.

Created by New York artist A.M. Hoch in collaboration with dotsperinch, Wallace Shawn (one of America's most original playwrights and performers) and Deborah Eisenberg (actor, writer and winner of four O'Henry awards), Mitosis proposes a new theatre of memory - a new media environment where biology, personal history and genetics converge.

Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells uses the coded, cellular memory of a family to explore the hidden mechanisms, both biological and social, that shape us. Mitosis (the process by which the chromosomes in the cell's nucleus divide and replicate) provides a vivid metaphor for the elemental struggle for individuation within the nuclear family.

"When I first approached Mark Shepard of dotsperinch to collaborate with me on the digital aspects of Mitosis," A.M. Hotch notes, "I was immediately struck by the intuitive way he responded to the concept. Here was an architect and technologist who seemed to think and feel like a painter, no translation was necessary. To explore and develop new relationships between film, architecture, and painting, in which the viewer plays an active rather than passive role, was thrilling. Ultimately, the life and heart with which dotsperinch imbued the technology of Mitosis is as fascinating and compelling to me as I hope it is for the viewer.

Digital media and interactive technologies were developed in collaboration with Mark Shepard, Fiona Murphy and Carlos Tejada of New York based digital architects dotsperinch.

about the Beall Center

The Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for Art and Technology is a research and exhibition center that explores new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, promoting new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies.

about dotsperinch

dotsperinch designs interactive spaces for information rich environments. From physical installations to projects for the web, local networks and wireless devices, we create situations that encourage exploration, self-reflection and open dialogue.

Partners and clients span the arts, museum, and education communities, and include UNICEF, the Jewish Museum, the National Building Museum, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the National Arts Council of Ireland, and independant artists and non-profit organsisations. Recent projects include SonicMemorial.org - a memorial to the World Trade Center, the National Building Museum's online exhibit Building-America.org, and the UNICEF Video Booth located @ 3 UN Plaza in New York City.