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It is with great sadness that I share the news that Ken Haines died in his sleep on Monday night.
First and foremost he was my friend and mentor with whom I had the privilege to learn so much about holography. He was there with Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks in Michigan when they made their amazing first holograms, he went on to develop so many holographic processes, at his first company, Eidetic Images, at American Banknote, at his second company, Simian Technologies. The 3 holographic covers of National Geographic (made at American Banknote) were an astonishing technical breakthrough that exposed millions of people to Holography for the first time.
Ken was also a passionate windsurfer who established his Northern California lab in a location where he could observe the wind conditions and be ready to grab his board and be out there at a moment's notice when the wind was right.
For those of you who didn't know him, he was a panelist on our first HoloSeminar which was recorded and you can watch online at
https://vmoholo.org/#/holoseminar-1#video
As always, he had much to say about Holography, his passion, and life's work.
We will miss you Ken. Rest in Peace.
Can You tell me when Light Windows in NY in May happens in 2022? Can you tell me how I submit the exhibition?
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Last day before class begins for "Understanding Holograms 3 - From Lasers to Light Fields".
Holograms are rapidly becoming a part of our world and with the development of new Digital Holographic Displays we will now be able to see full color, full parallax, moving dimensional images without glasses. As we move forward into this new world of dimensional displays it will be essential to understand what makes a truly holographic image, what is a fake (Pepper's Ghost projections) what is a stereo image, what is photogrammetry, a lenticular image, a volumetric image, a 3D Light Projection and what Light Fields really are.
Armed with this knowledge you can make intelligent decisions about what type of dimensional image you want to create and how these can be used for Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Advertising, Displays and a wide range of other applications.
Classes begin tomorrow at noon EST and run for 3 hours each Thursday for 7 weeks. To read more about the class and view the curriculum please go to
https://lnkd.in/ecikCCu where you can sign up for the class. The fee for the 7 week class is $250.
Although the first class begins tomorrow it will be recorded and I will keep the registration open for a few days for those who want to join us at the last minute.
The hologram in the video is by Fine Artist Dora Tass and is also featured on the home page of our new website for the Virtual Museum of Holography.
www.vmoholo.org.
My new piece 'Light Portal' debuted at the opening of SPACE:LIGHT, this past Saturday at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery(NYC). Come see this and the work of 8 other light and video artists through the end of October. Presented by Center for the Holographic Arts
Another event for you all to check out this weekend, especially if you are not in NY and can't get to the opening of SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality.
Sally Weber is presenting an online seminar:
Color, Light, Motion. Episode 6: Sally Weber
COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series featuring media artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts.
2 Oct 2021 - 12:00pm
To learn more about the event and get the link to participate go to
https://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1537
Join us on Saturday evening 10/2/21 for our new exhibition:
SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality
An exhibition of light art and optical media
October 2 – October 30, 2021
The Culture Lab LIC, Plaxall Gallery
Thursdays 6-10pm
Weekends 12-5pm
5-25 46th Avenue,
Long Island City, NY 11101
This year’s SPACE:LIGHT has a theme centered on an Alternate Reality that each artist personally creates in tandem with additional versions of Realities that will be perceived, installed, and displayed by fellow conceptualizers within the community of Light Art to challenge the bounds of space and time.
Maximus Clarke, Valeria Divinorum, Nic Koller, Ksenia, Linda Loh, Sam Moree, Steve Pavlovsky, Geo Stadnik, Erin Taylor, and Everything Good Studio (Rachel Ciaverella and Jack Kalish)
Curated by Rita Jiménez and Patrice Scott
Sam Moree will be bringing together multiple works for a new hologram performance installation.
Preview: Thursday, September 30th, 7-9 pm
with a live outdoor concert by Calvin S*xton
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 2nd, 7-10pm
with performances by:
5pm: Craig Greenberg
7pm: Festejation
7pm: We’re All Skewed (Indoors)
Closing Performances:
Saturday, October 30th, with TBA times
For more of the Live Music music program see The Culture Lab LIC
The Space:Light program enables artists to experiment with light art, experimental projection and multi-dimensional imagery, including stereo-3D to encapsulate realities shared and unique to each creative mind. This year we are collaborating to give more artists an opportunity to share their work with light.
Space:Light is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Image by Sam Moree
I want to let you all know about a great opportunity to win a Fine Art Hologram by August Muth
www.augustmuth.com. As the Executive Director of the HoloCenter
www.holocenter.org and the Founder of the Virtual Museum of Holography
www.vmoholo.org, I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity to own a hologram by August Muth. We are beginning our Fundraising drive for the VMOH with the raffle of a wonderful hologram, Radiant Spring #8.
You can purchase tickets online at
https://go.rallyup.com/hologram-raffle-1 and the winning number will be drawn on September 21st at 1.30 pm EST at the end of our next online seminar. Details about the seminar in another post.
Although we would love you to join us for the seminar it is not required and we will be notifying the winner via email.
We are also very grateful to August for his support of the HoloCenter and the VMOH and hope that there are more holographic artists out there who will follow his lead. Please contact me at
[email protected] if you are interested in donating a hologram.
If you wish to receive our newsletter and stay up to date with the many events that will be unfolding this Fall, please go to
https://holocenter.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a10f47f4105334f5ef3710bea&id=b0dcc3ae
Help us to make this raffle a great success by sending this to your friends and encouraging them to take a chance. How often does anyone get a chance to win such an amazing piece of art?
Boston Cyberarts is excited to present “Light Spring,” a special pop-up exhibition in the windows of Boston Cyberarts gallery of holograms by Betsy Connors to celebrate the Covid-19 vaccine.
This exclusive pop-up exhibition is now up through Friday May 21st. Light Spring is best viewed at night, so please visit the gallery in the evening to see this work in the windows!
Light Spring is a montage of three-dimensional holograms of nature imagery centered around a turtle representing the vaccine. In many ancient mythologies, the turtle is the creature who carries the world on its back.
Light Spring is also a part of LIGHT WINDOWS by the Center for the Holographic Arts - an exhibition of light in windows and in public space taking place all around the world during the weekend of May 14th – 16th 2021.
About the artist:
Betsy Connors is an artist and educator associated with the cutting edge research and experimentation in light and holography that grew out of MIT’s Spatial Imaging Group. At MIT she lectured at the Media Lab (1990–2006) after graduating with a Master of Science degree in 1986. Connors was also MIT Museum’s first Curator of Holography. She founded her own lab and studio, ACME Holography, in the Boston area where she currently works.
To learn more about Betsy’s work visit betsyconnors.com
Excited to exhibit my latest light art, a holographic video entitled “Lilith Shrine: Orb Centrifuge” in the windows at Refuge Arts (80 Vernon Ave 11237, Brooklyn) this Fri-Sun for LIGHT WINDOWS, my second year doing this at Refuge with Center for the Holographic Arts . Check out their site for all the works around the city that you can walk by and see glowing through the windows after dark. Here’s a great write up we got last year in New York Daily News featuring an image of my work.
https://holocenter.org/light-windows-2021/julia-sinelnikova-aka-oracle666-lilith-rebirth
There has been a little confusion regarding signing up for this workshop. It is good to see so many of you interested in this event on Facebook but you have to register on EventBrite in order to get the Zoom link for Sunday. Please click on this link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/151649781579
Looking forward to seeing you there on Sunday!
Linda Law
Executive Director of the HoloCenter
www.holocenter.org
Edge of Light, an exhibition curated by Jonathan Sims, revolves around light-based artworks in a dark space wherein the works are allowed to stand in their own light, elevating the viewer’s ability to engage with the installation at hand.
The exhibition brings together artists who experiment with light and image making, presenting a range of installations, sculptural projections and other site-specific artwork which expanding our notion of what the material is capable of.
Edge of Light will be on display at Plaxall Gallery in Long Island, New York, until December 27, 2020.
Read more - STIRworld.com
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