Shadow Waves by Martina Mrongovius for Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect

May 5 – July 30, 2017

HoloCenter on Governors Island

Ideas propagate, patterns resonate and space transforms

The sensation of a ripple brings our awareness to change.  The rhythm of energy, force, time and space shape our consciousness and shift reality into new configurations. Change is woven into perception and unwoven into narratives. Detecting ripples we feel the unseen, we reconstruct the past from the impact of events.  Our bodies use ripples to probe reality, and create ripples to change it.


The holographic image is created from rippled patterns of interference within the print. Light is shaped by the captured structure as it travels through the hologram.  The holographic scene perpetually reconstructed.

Patrick BoydBetsy ConnorsGuillermo Federico HeinzeLinda Law • Waldemar Mattis-Teutsch  • Sam MoreeAugust MuthAna Maria NicholsonJulius SchmiedelDan Schweitzer Ray ParkDoris Vila Steve Weinstock • Tobias Wolter

with high speed video by Phred Petersen and Dr. Matthew Taylor

curated by  Martina Mrongovius

Doris Vila talk about her artwork Diagnosis of an existential headache and her art practice

The Center for the Holographic Arts is supported in part by the Hologram Foundation and receives exhibition funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature