holocenter

Pulse Laser Hologram Workshop

holocenter — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:01:22 +0000

At The Ohio State University June 2012, by Sam Moree and Harris Kagan.

Advanced Holographic Facility to be Built in Beacon, NY

holocenter — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:28:12 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Linda Law, Executive Director of the Center for 4D Arts
email: centerfor4darts@hotmail.com

ADVANCED HOLOGRAPHIC FACILITY FOR THE USE OF ARTISTS TO BE BUILT IN BEACON BY THE CENTER FOR 4D ARTS

The Center for 4D Arts has recently received notice that they will be the recipients of a donation of funds from Jonathan Ross the owner of the world’s largest collection of holograms. In addition, Ross has agreed to become a board member for the Center for 4D Arts and help with the growth of this new organization. This donation comes on the heels of an endorsement by the International Holography Manufacturers Association who support 4D Arts in this new endeavor. We are also endorsed by the Center for the Holographic Arts in Long Island City, a sister organization, who facilitate art holography including an artist in residence program at Ohio State University.

Under the guidance of Executive Director, Linda Law, who is the co-founder of this organization with Maria Marewski, (Founder and former director of Children’s Media Project in Poughkeepsie), The Center for 4D Arts is moving forward with the establishment of a new holographic facility. With a mission to provide access for artists to equipment and facilities, education and exhibitions on all aspects of 3D + Time, this facility is part of a large plan to fulfill our mandate. We have already received a number of large donations of optical equipment and lasers appropriate for holography. Several leading holographic engineers have offered their time and technical skills to help us make this a state of the art facility. We are fortunate as well to have leading artists in the field looking forward to teaching in our center and volunteers to help us build out the facility.

We are raising funds to achieve the building of this working facility. Watch out for our Kickstarter Campaign and help us spread the word.

We are actively looking for volunteers and student interns. Whether you want to get involved or just keep informed, sign up for our e-mail list at: centerfor4darts@hotmail.com.

Linda Law is the Executive director of the Center for 4D Arts. She is also a holographic/digital artist who works with multi-media. Her long experience in the field of 3D has included working in holographic research, as curator of the New York Museum of Holography, independent curator of many exhibitions of holography, writing on the subject for a number of magazines, and many years of teaching workshops in holography to students of all ages.

The Center for 4D Arts is a fiscally sponsored project of the not-for-profit, The Solo Foundation, NY. Tax deductible donations to the Center for 4D Arts can be made through the website of the Solo Foundation.

Center for the Holographic Arts 1998~2005

holocenter — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:51 +0000

This video has been shot and edited by Ana Maria Nicholson ( Founder and Director ), Ikuo Nakamura ( then Co-Director ), and Sam Moree, spanning 1998-2005.

We’d like to dedicate this footage to our best Holographers who opened this field:

Dan Schweitzer ( Co-founder, Holography artist pioneer )
Rudie Berkhout ( Holography artist, Pioneer)
Steve Benton ( Prof. MIT Medialab spatial Imaging group)
Peter Nicholson ( pioneer Holography artist / sculptor)

Special Thanks to Sheawater foundation for the support.

Into the Night

holocenter — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:01:30 +0000

Ana Maria Nicholson

October 3 – 24, 2009

An exhibition of large format holograms that capture the hidden dimensions of the body.

holoscape

holocenter — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:03 +0000

Martina Mrongovius

Nick Normal

September 17 – 20, 2009

This user-generated and activated photo-map-scape playfully explores how collective experience can be mapped into a holographic scene. Images tagged with #holoscape or #confluxfestival were printed, pasted onto cardboard stands and placed in the diorama which visitors to Flux Factory could animate. This scene was then captured spatially over time – the Holoscape growing and then drooping over the Conflux Festival weekend.

Light Magic

holocenter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:01:34 +0000

Rudie Berkhout

April 18 – May 30, 2009

This retrospective exhibition showcased Rudie Berkhout’s holograms and laser works to celebrate his life in art.

“My hope is to reach the subtler levels of perception, holding up mirrors for thoughts, that reflect the magic that surrounds us.”
– Rudie Berkhout

This was the last show in the Long Island City Center for the Holographic Arts Gallery

Rudie Berkho
(born Amsterdam 1946 – died Catskill, NY 2008)

Future Memories 1979
8” x 10” laminated in 30 x 40cm
White Light Transmission Hologram

Berkhout started working with holography at the New York School of Holography in 1975 before establishing his own studio in the city. His work considered light as the medium itself and he sought to reveal its mystery and beauty through holograms and light installations.

Berkhout embraced holography with its seemingly infinite potential for development and exploration. He was a pioneer of intricate imaging techniques, which captured the magic of light.

This retrospective exhibition celebrates Berkhout’s life in art and his contributions to the artform of holography. The works presented in ‘Light Magic’ span 33 years – focusing on his transmission works of the late 70s and early 80s to his refection pieces that catch light in organically folding structures.

Berkhout was involved in numerous exhibitions including, “New Directions in Holography” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Mehr Licht” at the Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany), “Unfolding Light, The Evolution of Ten Holographers” at the Salvador Dalí Museum (Saint Petersburg, FL), as well as solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN), the Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan), and the Anchorage Museum of History and Art (Anchorage, AK).

Berkhout created public installations of his works at Bank of America Technology Center (Charlotte, NC), the Department of Transportation of the Netherlands, and an atrium installation for the University of Wisconsin. He invented the Novia Lighting concept – a system of low-wattage lasers and holographic diffractions that create a cosmos of light.

As well as pursuing holography Berkhout was a talented musician and involved in the community of Catskill, NY.

“Rudie blazed a trail and produced some of the most significant creative
works using light as a dimensional medium. Many of these works
are in major art collections world-wide. He had a quiet calm,
and an intense commitment. He will be sadly missed.”
– International Holography Fund, 2008

Portraits in Laser Light

holocenter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:01:27 +0000

Ana Maria Nicholson

November 23, 2008 – May 10, 2009

Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio

Bishop Paul Moore

Keith Haring

Tony Bennett

David Byrne

A holographic portrait is a unique three-dimensional image that captures the living presence of a person in light. The portraits have a vividness and wealth of detail impossible to obtain with a photograph.

A holographic portrait is recorded in a few nanoseconds with a ruby pulse laser on a holographic film. It contains a vast amplitude of information about the person as it captures reflected laser light from every direction and angle. The resulting portrait hangs on a wall with a halogen spotlight illuminating it from above.

Plants and Stones

holocenter — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:01:35 +0000

Juyong Lee

October 3 – 5, 2008

Inspired by nature the Plants and Stones series captures a subtle play between form and shadow.

Juyong Lee is known for his exquisite photographs and holograms with recent exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Korea and Seoul Art Center.

Radiant Logic

holocenter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:01:47 +0000

Adrienne Klein

June 1 – July 19, 2008

Klein’s work often lets the viewer look through and beyond transparent layers. The work gives you options for what you may focus on, with the clear suggestion that there are multiple perspectives. This is especially true of the hologram that is central to this exhibition of new work; an illogical variation on a logic diagram appears to float over a video image of the Earth.

Klein writes,

“Logic Prevails – This is not a headline I expect to read soon, but a hope that flickers occasionally in the face of life’s absurdity.”

Another work appears to be a set of three lumps of amber that include specks and strands of organic material. Pieces of amber are especially prized when they include the intact bodies of insects from the Middle Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, 10-100 million years ago. These pieces seem to hold that possibility — with a video twist.

The exhibition includes drawings, video installations, constructions and the aforementioned hologram. Ideas addressed include semiotics and the artist’s experience of amnesia. The artist is co-Director of the Science & the Arts series at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Holographic Collaboration

holocenter — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:01:34 +0000

Ana Maria Nicholson

Rudie Burkhout

April 12 – May 17, 2008

This exhibition featured stunning self-portraits created at the Museum of Holography in 1989. The artists experimented with pulse laser illumination to create dramatic slithers of themselves that are intertwined yet hold their own space.

Rainbow Galactica

holocenter — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:01:25 +0000

Amy Rush

with Guillermo Heinze, Martina Mrongovius, Paula Nino Ramez and Park Joo Sup

December 8 – 27, 2007

Rainbow Galactica

A passage into love and beyond

By Grace Hughes

A calling into another universe … resplendent with light … final twinkle … float upon the lichthaus boat. Floating floating floating. A magical exploration of a mesmerising realm. Do not be overwhelmed, one mere wink is all it takes to awake and celebrate the mystical space of rainbow galactica.

Another beam of light and the window blazes bright … let go, no need to hold on tight or travel with any fear, the rainbow superhighway slide will gently glide you from material remiss to virtual holographic bliss.

Crown of roses … immersed in glitter … suspended in space. This ain’t no cheap kitsch 80’s holographic kiss … sshhhh … hear the sound of the romantic triangle of bliss. Open your heart to the world beyond the rainbow as you are a rainbow, a beautiful rainbow fairy princess floating amid another dimension. Find your feet and dance and fly from the stars to stand amid the shield of the rainbow flower field.

With love you grow complete and expose your soul. Spinning around around around … reflect … is this really you, are you only visible through light oh Ruby I need more light I need more love keep on spinning. You are intoxicated with love change colours with every breath riding horse through forest navigated by the magical powers of the singing flowers. Oh Icelandic beauty can you hear the frozen flowers perform your song?

Aghast … what is that shrill? Magnificent unicorn, now you stand still, bedazzle me with your eyes as they explode into another technicolour world. I can now see my castle. Cum with me loved one so we can make three. One thousand rainbows … one pair of eyes … I see me through so many a guise. Fly fly fly when will this journey end, am I travelling to find myself my spirit my form lost a pixel a block within a glass cube?

Many adventures are to be had and friends to be made although, at times, things will not feel quite right, all remains bright but from within the light you might gasp with fright. Do not fear if we unite forces all will become clear and rainbow galactica will not become a holographic souvenir but a fascinating celestial artistic frontier.

‘The human longing of visiting the world beyond the rainbow is introduced to us from an early age and has found itself at the centre of my research over the last years’, states Amy Rush, the exhibition a record of her quest for knowledge concentrated in the various imaging processes of rainbow holography. This quest has continually challenged Rush to seek new and more superior ways to enlarge her rainbow landscape. Beginning her exploration with video, “I can sing a rainbow”, a 20 minute performance with a three-piece band and dancer on a rooftop of an abandoned building in Surry Hills, Sydney 2002, Rush soon found herself at the Center for Holographic Arts in NYC. It was here that her holographic superhighway between material and virtual worlds began to breathe rapidly resulting in a frenzy of work, the Series Somewear. Through white light transmission holograms made from pulsated master laminated on glass Rush entered into her rainbow world through transformation into a rainbow … a mystical illusionary character.

During this transmutation a disturbing feeling around her neck occurred as she watched herself penetrate this world. The birth of her first hologram, a single head crowned with roses, suspended in another mystical realm winked playfully back at her. In this new world reminders of the past to create the present were necessary … a tangible world … a jewel vault, mermaid, unicorn, fairy and red glitter shoes followed. Rush’s fantasized cosmogony and its Eve like fairy princess head longed for more. An artist making her ‘dream’ happy and consequently attempting to fulfil her own ego… sought out deficiencies…

A year later her insatiable quest to fulfil her artistic passion manifested in the need to create ‘the dress’. A wearable life-sized dress made from triple exposed white light transmission holograms copied from pulsated master laminated on to sections of Perspex, a tribute to the fashion designer Wallid. But she sought more, her ego unsatisfied; the dress too dense to enter her rainbow world, a landscape was imperative. The line between the realm of the rainbow and reality became narrow and less distinct. A parallel between Rush’s life and her alter ego became apparent. In order to grant her the possibility of travelling in the rainbow realm, Rush had to travel into (across) the world, to find the places and persons to repair the holographic dimension of her lonely ego, the princess.

This once purely analogue work provided the conception and birth of her Rainbow Galactica, digital its growth, landscape and Rush’s entrance evidenced in her series of full colour holographic stereograms, ‘I love you’, created in Cologne, Germany 2005. Rush’s work screamed out louder colour and movement was possible in a place which was once static.

Rush’s work capitalises on the misconception people possess of holographic art practices and the difficulty in generating original subjective authored realities. The misconception that holograms are merely exact 3D replicas of existing realities is kept alive through the special effects representation of holograms in films and the incorrect naming of illustrations which are simply life like transparencies of concrete things. This misconception is further promoted with the wide acceptance of these ideas by popular culture, early theoretical writings and limited public exposure to artistic practices. Rush’s work plays into this public perception of a hologram as being a replica of an actual reality and uses this misconception to fulfil her artistic objective. She says, “At first my work may seem childlike naive but the discourse of my work is all about the misunderstanding of the holographic medium.’

Her musing surrounding the misunderstanding of the holographic medium united her current practice with four artists, Giamo Heinze, Martina Mrongovious, Paula Nino Ramez and Park Joo Sup. The identifying common link is their attempt to not replicate the real but generate their interpretation of the reality with original fresh impressions within the hologram.

Argentinean artist Guillermo Heinze also digitally places himself within his work revolving and reassesses his psychological hallucination constantly. More recent inquiry has resulted in the use of the steriogram to locate God, defining his/her/its territory within the holographic territory as he examines the greater issues of life metaphorically. Heinze confirms Rush’s existence in the Rainbow Realm through the metamorphosis of rainbows into her eyes establishing portholes to her child like fascination with shape and colour enhancing and witnessing her view as one.

Artist Martina Mrongovius is interested in “an anchoring of what you see and where you are”. She makes it possible for the viewer to navigate and explore her environment through manipulating images of urban landscapes and representations of its territory capturing dimensional relationships through the exploration of connections made between different perspectives and the temporal patterns within holography. Rush comments “She includes herself as the main character of her explorations in the navigation of the urban environment where she involves her character into the reality of the world and its deconstruction.” Mrongovious’ work ‘The Voyage of the Lighthouse Boat’ allows the viewers passage into the Rainbow Realm. This work is atypical for her remarking “the hologram is of an insect-boat. It is a humorous comment on the nature of adventure and the absurdity of the connected meaning within the urban landscape.”

The rainbow is further played in by artist Paula Nino Ramez, manipulating it to share with the viewer her exceptional moments comprised of memories, real life situations and people. Rush compares Ramez’s work with Dorris Villa and comments, “her work is narrative to her own life. Her work featured in this exhibition is based on a delightful Colombian memory involving a talking ‘Loro’ bird, amazing vacation house, the warmth of the sun, swimming pool until the bird jumps into the pool with it’s memory existing in the hologram.

The work of Park Joo Sup’s deals mainly with the unseen and spiritual world using the rainbow to house these unseen spirits. He says, “because I think hologram is the only tool to express such worlds. We use the materials such as oil, paints, pigments to express the things we could see with our eyes but we can’t see the light of the world and spiritual world. I think hologram is a good way of showing the world between the two opposite parts. You don’t see its film without light and can’t even guess what is inside of it.” With his work ‘The Rainbow Cube’, the glass-cube expresses the body whilst the rainbow reflects the spiritual world. Rush writes, “Joo Sup is now proposing his new work, Rainbow Cube, as a pure matter building block of the world in the context of this exhibition. His focus in this exhibition is the rainbow and where we are, as humans and it connect”.

Explore Rush’s rainbow superhighway between material and virtual worlds through her fictitious alchemical tale. Be cleverly guided through her and fellow peer’s holographic playground quashing clichéd populist miscomprehensions of their world whilst avoiding a mundane classical conceptual analysis. Delight, frolic and play in her juxtaposition of reality and fantasy as you visit her world beyond the rainbow.

Shelf Life

holocenter — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:01:31 +0000

Mary Harman

May – June, 2007

Feeding Alice

holocenter — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:01:56 +0000

Eva Davidova

March 17 - April 15, 2007

Healing: A Cultural Exploration

holocenter — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:01:35 +0000

Roberta Booth

February 17 – March 17, 2007

Roberta Booth created the Heavenly Healing series during her AIR at the Holocenter AIR Program in 2001, just after the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.

LUST FOR LIGHT

holocenter — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:01:42 +0000

including work created at the Holocenter by

Ana Maria Nicholson

February 8 – March 6, 2007

Gallery 286, London

hologram nudes & erotic photography from the Jonathan Ross collection

HIDE AND SEEK

holocenter — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:01:56 +0000

Ana Maria Nicholson

November 11, 2006 – January 23, 2007

VARIABLES OCULTAS: de lo plegado a lo desplegado

holocenter — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:01:33 +0000

Pepe Buitrago

October 4 - November 4, 2006

at the CATEDRAL GALLERY Murcia, Spain

into the holographic landscape

holocenter — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:01:46 +0000

Martina Mrongovius

September 21 – 24, 2006

A series of dynamic holographic images that reveal the entangled nature of the urban landscape

Comprising of both holographic and photographic images, this body of work explores spatial-visual relationships within urban geometry. By reconstructing digital image sequences complex forms emerge through geometric structures and multiple perspectives. These works are the first stage of Martina’s two year Master of Design research project, undertaken at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

The methods developed to reconstruct these holographic scenes are a continuation of Martina’s investigation into optical structures. This, her most recent work, blends sampled imagery with computer processes forming a montage of actual and virtual spaces. The strange dynamics revealed by moving around the holograms creates a mnemonic urban landscape.

These holographic scenes were constructed by blending sampled imagery with computer processes, forming a montage of actual and virtual geometry.

The stereographic reconstruction of these digital image sequences allows for a mnemonic landscape to be experienced as you move through the multiple perspectives.

The holograms in this exhibition were produced at The Academy of Media Arts (Cologne) and the Center for the Holographic Arts (New York).

Strata Series

holocenter — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:01:32 +0000

Sally Weber

May 6 – June 30, 2006

and the The Butler Institute of American Art
October 8 – December 3 , 2006

Patterns of motion pulsate in these works which utilize a holographic technique to reveal the movement of breath, blood and muscle tension on the surface of the body. “If these patterns are constant but unseen,” the artist asks, “how many other layers of body and mind are hidden from us?” Weber’s entire “Descent from the Strata Series – Holograms and Photographs 1996-2006″ will be shown for the first time in its completed, six-part state in this exhibition.

Artist’s Statement

Light changes. It measures time and space. As an artistic medium it is transient; altering mood, content and intent.

In working with light, my installations explore the experience of transformation. Light is my means, holography and photography my media. Attempting to capture an experience of transience, hold it a moment and pass it along is a way of telling the tale. The same stories have been told through time, but every generation has the opportunity to retell them again with the technologies of their age.

Light is my metaphor and means of touching something inherently eternal and momentary.

- Sally Weber, 2006

Fossils

holocenter — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:01:42 +0000

Ikuo Nakamura

April 26, 2006

installed his site specific hologram ‘Fossils’
in Mayan ruin “Tikal” in the jungle of Guatemara at sunset

FORBIDDEN COLORS

holocenter — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:01:12 +0000

Ikuo Nakamura

October 1 – 31, 2005

VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES

holocenter — Sat, 14 May 2005 00:01:40 +0000

Betsy Connors

May 14 – June 1, 2005

The Body Electric

holocenter — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:01:30 +0000

Ana Maria Nicholson

Ikuo Nakamura

July 7 – August 7, 2004

The exhibition features six life-size installations by artists Ana Maria Nicholson and Ikuo Nakamura that use holograms, video and lasers to explore spirituality, transience and the human condition. These figurative works create a luminous space and a visually tactile experience.

PETER NICHOLSON, PIONEER OF PULSE LASER HOLOGRAPHY DIED IN MIAMI DECEMBER 2003

holocenter — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:01:31 +0000

Peter and Arnold in Hawaii, 1979

Peter Nicholson, artist, inventor and pioneer of pulse laser holography died suddenly of a heart attack in Miami where he had gone to attend the Basel Art Fair. Peter became involved in holography after meeting Lloyd Cross in the early 70′s. He became director of the Smithsonian Holography Program at Brookhaven National Laboratories where he was the first artist to explore the possibilities of pulse portraiture. With Ana Maria Nicholson he founded the Center for Experimental Holography and moved it to the University of Hawaii. While there they made portraits of the Governor and other notables including Agnes Lum and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the 1980′s and 1990′s he was Founder and President of Holographics, Inc., a research and development company where he invented and produced a miniaturized portable pulse laser with an incorporated camera called the “Portraitist”. Later this camera was adapted for non-destructive testing of aircraft. He obtained over $600,000 in National Science Foundation grants to develop a miniature pulse laser using a new crystal praseodymium which he hoped would further the development of color holography. He held 10 U.S. patents.