In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.

Paul Catanese, a visiting artist at U-M, is a hybrid media artist who blurs the lines between the visual, performing, and media arts in a diverse range of works that include installation, performance, video, sound, projection, and print media; he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Catanese is currently a professor and director of Graduate Study for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago.

He will be presenting recent developments regarding his experimental opera project: Century of Progress / Sleep. During his residency, he’s been developing a new section of this work as a virtual reality experience, and incorporating electroencephalography (EEG) data. Previous iterations of this work have been staged in galleries, black box theaters, as well as for planetarium / fulldome experience. Catanese will be sharing outcomes from these previous iterations, including details from the touchdesigner patches used for controlling live visuals in the planetarium dome.