The Center for the Holographic Arts – HoloCenter – is an organization dedicated to promoting and developing holographic artwork. Focused on the art medium of optical holograms we also support light based installations, multi-dimensional imaging and experimental visual media.
Holography is unique in its capacity to bring virtual understandings into contemporary dialogues around media participation, technology and visuo-spatial information. The HoloCenter has four main objectives: production, exhibition, research and education. As an active non-profit arts organization our mission is to ensure that holographic art continues to evolve and inspire.
The HoloCenter was founded by respected holographic artists Ana Maria Nicholson and Dan Schweitzer in 1998 to enable artists to access the medium. Our current Executive Director, Linda Law has been at the cutting edge of the medium for over 40 years including the latest developments in digital holographic displays and brought the HoloCenter to Kingston, New York.
The HoloCenter Exhibition Program began at our Court Square studio in Long Island City from where we produced the tour exhibition GENERATIONS (1999/2000). Ikuo Nakamura and Ana Maria Nicholson were co-directors (2003-2008) and created the exhibition The Body Electric. Martina Mrongovius was the Creative Director (2009-2020) navigating the organization with donated venues including The Clock Tower in Long Island City, provided by No Longer Empty (2013/14), where we established the Vault Gallery and presented the major exhibitions ‘Interference:Coexistence’ and ‘Uncertain Worlds’. Then HoloCenter on Governors Island where we offered free public programs (2014-19) with a number of major exhibitions, a studio residency program and teaching studios and SPACE:LIGHT exhibitions of light art installations presented with Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. During covid-19 she produced LIGHT WINDOWS (2020 & 2021) a world wide installation of art. With support from the Hologram Foundation in Paris she managed the Holographic Art Grant Program which provided a funding pool for artists to produce art holograms and resulted in the exhibition IRIDESCENCE.
The HoloCenter Pulse Laser Studio at Ohio State University offers an annual introductory workshop and enables artists to produce new works with the pulse laser. In Australia we are supporting a collaboration between the University of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie City Council to create a new pulse laser holography studio. We also partnered with Southwood Holographics to host an Artist In Residency program in 2021.
The HoloCenter is a 501c3 charity, kept alive by members, donations and grants. Our goal is to secure our own building to enable exhibitions, host workshops and create a home for holographic art.
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