Lives and works in Rochester, NY.

Rhodes’ hybrid-media Augmented Reality environment, developed at York University’s Future Cinema Lab, allows users to manipulate multiple “micro-channels” of moving images in real-time using their own set of hands and a deck of cards. Used in various configurations to disassemble films such as Rambo and The Good Bad and the Ugly, 52 Card Cinema will be used in it’s originally conception — to disassemble the iconic shower sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. At the touch of a fingertip, the familiar face of Marion Crane appears animated, yet haunted and misplaced; faces and body parts writhe in unison, seamlessly looping scream after scream as the images patiently wait to be re-articulated into newly constructed vignettes by a simple hand shuffle or shift. This technological process indulges more than a spatial juggling act, but pays homage to the craft of popular cinema and reunites the audience with the cinematic experience through a newfound aspect of timelessness.

On view at Squeaky Wheel

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