Holographic Embodiment at the HoloCenter on Governors Island
August 31 – October 27, 2019
Ikuo Nakamura, KLESHAS, 2019, Volumetric film projection through LOOKING GLASS, 5mins, Featuring Yamini Kalluri, performance at SOAPBOX GALLERY, Brooklyn
Ikuo Nakamura is a holographic artist and filmmaker.
Nakamura has been working with holography since early 1980s. He co-directed the Center for the Holographic Arts 2002 – 2006 and has exhibited numerous installations that incorporate holography. In 2004 he created the exhibition ‘The Body Electric’ with Ana Maria Nicholson, which was exhibited at Green Street Gallery in New York and then The Butler Institute of American Art in 2005-6
In 2013 Nakamura’s 3D film ‘Atmosphere’, a documentation of the northern lights, won numerous awards including the Paul Wing Award and The Best 3D
Film of the Show at the National Stereoscopic Association Convention, and a Special Audience Award for 3D at BEFILM Festival in New York.