The Center for the Holographic Arts (Holocenter) is an organization dedicated to promoting and devel
The Holocenter was founded by respected holographic artists Ana Maria Nicholson and Dan Schweitzer in 1998. The current director Dr Martina Mrongovius works around the world producing exhibitions, teaching workshops, lecturing and developing holography facilities. Jonah Levy the Project Director in New York works with local and visiting artists to create exhibitions and events. Levy also develops the public awareness of holography through our programs and media outreach.
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December 12th 2022 HoloCenter Newsletter -
Morpho #3 is an individual composition within a suite of 20 artworks. The blue within the actual artwork is a deeper blue than can be represented by the video. This deep blue is not achievable within the palette of pigment or paint. It is a frequency only found within light. The richness of its co...
December 12th 2022 HoloCenter Newsletter -
Morpho #3 is an individual composition within a suite of 20 artworks. The blue within the actual artwork is a deeper blue than can be represented by the video. This deep blue is not achievable within the palette of pigment or paint. It is a frequency only found within light. The richness of its co...
The "Understanding Holograms" online course starts today but it's not too late to sign up! Classes will be recorded so there's plenty of time to catch up. The six week course, held each Friday via Zoom, runs through December.
https://www.lindalawfineart.com/online-courses-1
Holograms by Margaret Benyon and Rudie Berkhout.
November 8th 2022 Newsletter from the HoloCenter -
August was recently a part of Response, an exhibition at Pie Projects, 924 Shoofly Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505 from September 23 - October 22nd. Response was a group exhibition featuring four New Mexico-based artists using tradition painting techniques to cutting-edge technology to create responsiv...
November 8th 2022 Newsletter from the HoloCenter -
August was recently a part of Response, an exhibition at Pie Projects, 924 Shoofly Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505 from September 23 - October 22nd. Response was a group exhibition featuring four New Mexico-based artists using tradition painting techniques to cutting-edge technology to create responsiv...
There are still spaces left in our "Understanding Holograms - Fall 2022" online course! Learn the truth about holograms - from lasers to light fields. Classes begin Friday Nov 11.
To learn more & sign up, visit: https://www.lindalawfineart.com/online-courses-1
Holograms featured in this post are by artists Ana Maria Nicholson, Betsy Connors, Eva Davidova, August Muth, Ikuo Nakamura, Jacques Desbiens & Sam Moree.
Ikuo Nakamura is a holographic artist and filmmaker and has been working with holography since the early 1980s. He co-directed the Center for the Holographic Arts 2002 – 2006 and has exhibited numerous installations that incorporate holography.
Images featuring Nakamura's works titled Materialization, a Laser Transmission Hologram and Kleshas, a Volumetric Moving Image Projection through Looking Glass Factory.
Also featured in our upcoming exhibit in Kingston at Cornell Creative Arts & Business Center is Ana Maria Nicholson. She has been working as a holographic artist since 1978. She co-founded the Center for the Holographic Arts and was its director for eleven years.
See you at the opening on Friday!
Holograms: Dimensions in Light, a gallery show featuring the artists of the Center for the Holographic Arts, opens this Friday, 9/16 at Cornell Creative Arts & Business Center in Kingston, NY. We hope you will join us in celebrating the works of so many accomplished holographers and friends of the Holocenter. Throughout the next few days, we will be profiling all of the artists that will be on display. First up, Eva Davidova!
EVA DAVIDOVA explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Davidova’s practice involves research, performance, 360 video and 3D sculpture, holography, participatory Virtual Reality and interactive, site-specific immersive installations. She works with the human gesture and expression as a way to “mix” with, and disrupt technologies, and use the failures in these technologies to reclaim them. An important part of her practice is involving people to discuss
seemingly disparate, but strongly interwoven and urgent global issues in performative dinners and collaborative projects.
Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, Everson Museum, Albright Knox Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla, and La Regenta among others. She was a fellow of Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program for artists, Triangle Arts, Residency Unlimited, and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum incubator at the intersection of art, design and technology. Her latest solo exhibitions were at ISSUE Project Room and the Instituto Cervantes in New York, and her project Garden for Drowning Descendants, funded by the NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, will premiere at Harvestworks in August 2022.
We're excited to be partnering up with Center for the Holographic Arts to bring this upcoming gallery show to you all! The show will be on display 9/16 to 10/31 at 129 Cornell Street, Kingston, NY
“Holograms - Dimensions in Light” is an exhibition of Fine Art Holograms by the artists who have shaped the HoloCenter and who teach their online and in-person courses. Many artists have made holograms in their Artist-in-Residence programs during their 23 years as a not-for-profit organization. Join us in our gallery space as they present a selection of Fine Art holograms!
✨GREAT NEWS! ✨We have an exhibition of Holograms opening next Friday 6.30 pm - 9 pm at the Cornell Creative Arts & Business Center in Kingston, 129 Cornell Street, Kingston NY, 12401. We are delighted to announce that we also now have an office space there and have moved the Center for the Holographic Arts' collection of Holograms to Kingston. Lots more announcements to come over the next few weeks!
Join us for the opening next Friday and please repost this notice on as many pages as you can think of - we want to get the word out. Looking forward to seeing many of you there. The show will be open until October 31st.
✨GALLERY HOURS✨:
Monday 9am-5pm
Tuesday 9am-5pm
Wednesday-Friday: 2pm-8pm
Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: 10am-3pm
Join us for an Immersive Technology event series which kicks off this Saturday, July 9th. Led by leading immersive artists, the workshops center around building a virtual version of Kingston by the whole Kingston community.
Tickets are free and available at a first come, first serve basis at the below link.
Thank you to our sponsors New York State Council on the Arts and RUPCO
A series of free hands-on experiential workshops about Immersive Technology.
Amazing opportunity for the holography community to help select the holograms to be launched into space! We invite all members, supporters and friends of the Center for the Holographic Arts to be part of the selection of the first holographic art pieces to be sent to space.
Cornell University is in the final assembly stages of the Alpha CubeSat, a small spacecraft designed and built by students of Professor Mason Peck’s Space Systems Design Studio. The spacecraft shall demonstrate novel light sailing technology, aimed at the future goal of interstellar travel. In this not too distant future, scientists wish to send probes to Alpha Centauri in the search for extraterrestrial life on earth-like planets. Holography may play a central role in this mission and our holograms are a stepping stone.
There are 8 holograms total, but only a subset of these will fly on the CubeSat. The first hologram was selected by the Alpha team. The second by Cornell students, friends, and family. Now, we invite members and affiliates of the Center for the Holographic Arts to select the third. You have until MARCH 16 to vote.
For more information about the initiative and to vote: https://holocenter.org/project/holograms-to-space
Southwood Holographics recently announced the recipient of their Artist in Residence program this year: Chrissy Stuart! This program is in collaboration with the Center for the Holographic Arts.
Chrissy is a light sculpture artist, depth psychological scholar, and arts-based researcher based in the Mojave Desert. Chrissy utilizes light optics, holographic techniques, and glass sculpture in her arts-based research. Her light sculpture work is an ongoing process of probing the borderlands between the real and the imaginal, the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial, in her quest to understand the hidden forces beyond our control.
Formerly an executive in the music industry for 15+ years, Chrissy is actively involved in supporting the next generation of artists and industry creatives as co-founder of Atrium Creative, facilitator of UCLA’s Social & Emotional Arts program, and in her work as an Active Imagination and Arts Experiential instructor.
Stuart's exploration of light reflects the alchemical process and is an investigation into consciousness. This nigredo stage of alchemy, or “the blackening,” is the mysterious domain of death, fear, and the unconscious. As a depth psychological scholar, Chrissy takes a transdisciplinary approach to knowledge in her process of inquiry, and utilizes arts-based research as methodological tools in her practice.
Pictured here are three holograms by Stuart.
“The Leap Through Orphic Glass”
glass + elemental light, 5” x 4”, 2019
“Milagros Verdes”
glass + elemental light, 5” x 4”, 2019
“A Luminous Darkness”
glass + elemental light, 5” x 4”, 2019
Looking for exciting November plans? Join chashama at one of their upcoming art parties. Friends of Holocenter enjoy a $5 discount on both events!
ART PARTY - Tickets include open bar and immersion in a labyrinth of 300 performers and installations.
Thursday, November 18th
9pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring!
Tickets: $80
Promo code for $5 discount: ChaHoloParty
Tickets link: https://chashama-art-party.eventbrite.com
CHASHAMA-RAMA - a $25 art extravaganza with interactive performances by 300 artists.
Saturday, November 20th
12-6pm
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Fun!
Tickets: $25
Promo code for $5 discount: ChaHoloParty
Tickets link: https://chashama-rama.eventbrite.com
A huge thank you to all of the artists, curators, sponsors and visitors that helped bring SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality together at Plaxall Gallery, allowing us to explore a multitude of realities that challenged the bounds of space and time. Through these works, different worlds, dreams, timelines, and portals made of various light elements were brought to life.
Curators
Rita Jiménez
Patrice Scott
Sponsors
Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery
& Queens Council on the Arts
Artists
Maximus Clarke
Valeria Divinorum
Nic Koller
Ksenia
Linda Loh
Sam Moree
Steve Pavlovsky
Geo Stadnik
Erin Taylor
Everything Good Studio
Special thanks to Linda Law, Martina Mrongovius and Edjo Wheeler.
Clip of closing weekend performance featuring Sam Moree's hologram and Shoko Tamai (Ninja Ballet), his collaborator, performing a dance entitled: Out of the Hologram.
A reminder that our show SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality at The Plaxall Gallery is closing this weekend on Oct 31st.
To culminate this month-long event, we have a very special performance piece happening with Sam Moree on Saturday, October 30th from 5:30-5:45pm. As an extension of his hologram “Ocean Sky”, Shoko, his collaborator, will perform a dance entitled: Out of the Hologram. Please join us for this very special event!
The gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday 2 - 9 pm
Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
And for more about SPACE:LIGHT contributor Sam Moree and his exhibition piece 'Holographic Dream':
Holographic Dream brings together significant art holograms by Sam. A pioneer of art holography, these individual works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. For Holographic Dream, Moree has designed an assemblage of these works and ties them into a unified composition.
"I look at holography as a dance of balance - a Rosetta Stone - between Art and Science. The Primitive and the Sophisticated. The Past and the Future. A balancing beam of Light and Dark. Working with diverse materials - metal, stone, neon, plastic, paint and glass, the sculpture echoes in a holographic window. With my work I use stark, almost symbolic sculpture as a diving board to tumble into a holographic graffiti landscape.
At times the hologram is an arm of an image in search of its sculptural body, or the sculpture is a directing arrow to illusionary imagery. Other times they come together dancing on that balancing beam.
The image time-travels across the laser table. A black and white interference pattern is captured in a scientific chiaroscuro on the plate. This encoded `stone' translates reality into a dream illusion.
My imagery works in and out of focus, becoming a peripheral, optical soup. To capture the image, one must dance a near-tribal two-step which can be read as a mathematical equation forming different answers each time it is observed. Holography is my dance partner - with balance." - Sam Moree
A little peek at Ksenia Salion's installation DREAMS, part of our SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality group exhibition closing this Sunday at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery.
Catch the final days of the show. Open today 5-9pm and this weekend 2-9pm!
Steve Pavlovsky's (Liquid Light Lab) 'Light Portal' will be on view at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery through this weekend. Your last chance to catch all of the amazing SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality artists is this Sunday. For gallery times and upcoming info on special performances taking place this Saturday: https://holocenter.org/exhibition/space-light-2021
Liquid Light Lab is the work of Steve Pavlovsky, a multi-dimensional light artist from New York City. A majority of his work utilizes liquid projection, experimental media, and hand-made organic elements first seen in the Psychedelic Light Shows of the 1960s. Following on the visual music traditions of Kandinsky, Thomas Wilfred, and The Joshua Light Show, Mr. Pavlovsky invokes the sublime and spiritual. Building upon an analog relationship to Light and Time, Pavlovsky has created Liquid Light Lab, a living, breathing, visual expression of music, nature, and the human spirit. Concurrent with live performance and installation, Liquid Light Lab is also a vehicle for public information about Light Shows, and provides tools and guidance to other artists around the world.
Everything Good Studio's Curtain of Light is an interactive volumetric projection installation. In it, a barrier of light divides the gallery space - which visitors are encouraged to push against. The ethereal boundary moves and emanates sound in response to the touch of those that approach it.
"It has become clear that we are living in an increasingly divided and isolationist world, where each person inhabits their own alternate reality. However, many of these perceived divisions are superficial. Curtain of Light highlights these arbitrary and destructive divisions. Although both the physical and psychological walls that divide us may seem solid and unmoving, we show how fragile these constructs are. When you start to resist and push back, they fall away.
Via this work, we create an environment which forces people to confront the barriers between them. As an interactive art installation that is open to the public, our goal is to create a work that encourages strangers to interact and connect with one another. Particpating in Curtain of Light acts as a catalyst for dissolving barriers and bringing people together through a common experience." - Jack Kalish & Rachel Ciavarella of Everything Good Studio
You can experience Curtain of Light at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery now through SPACE:LIGHT's closing day October 31st. More info: https://holocenter.org/exhibition/space-light-2021
Currently at Plaxall Gallery there is a device called Smart Glass that we are helping to rehouse into the capable hands of an artist or really anyone that may be interested. It's so big (7 feet high!), so tech savvy (requires electrical assembly) and when used correctly, can truly have a magical effect, specifically transforming from opaque to transparent at the press of a button. Exhibits located in Westchester and beyond have situated this Smart Glass at the request of artists and projects in the past, including an opera 🎤🌹, but if anyone either desires to use it for their own work, the future, or has the perfect people in mind to recommend it to, please let us know! At minimum we can dolly it to you, most likely we can forklift it to you and at maximum we can U-Haul it to you. Since it's polycarbonate rather than actually glass, it doesn't break when something hits it. A perk. We'd prefer this to go into capable hands than into the dumpster! Must go ASAP. If interested, please reach out to Patrice Scott: patrice at holocenter.org.
Maximus Clarke's () I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY is on view for a few more days as part of our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery.
"I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY consists of an anaglyph 3D video loop projected into the middle of a large, empty wooden frame hung on the gallery wall. Viewers wearing red/blue glasses experience the images projected inside the frame three-dimensionally, as if seeing them through a window or portal.
The video consists of a sequence of views of a shattered monumental marble head from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As the eyeless head scans slowly back and forth, a tunnel of glowing, pulsating squares recedes behind it into a twilit sky.
Thematically, the installation — which takes its title from a poem by Emily Dickinson — explores the power of imagination as our best tool for understanding experience. Our sensory perceptions of the world are continually integrated by our imaginative faculties, and it is through this mental synthesis that we actually encounter reality in all its depth and mystery."
Thank you to all of our special Holoseminar guests for joining us yesterday and helping to celebrate the lives of Fred Unterseher and Rebecca Deem. What a wonderful time together, sharing stories and memories. Until the next one!
Erin Taylor's () "Candela Prisma" is on view at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery through Oct 31st as part of SPACE:LIGHT 2021: https://holocenter.org/exhibition/space-light-2021
"The controlled refractive properties of optical glass have altered and in many ways shaped how humans perceive the world in which they live. From mirrors to cameras, from the microscopic to the telescopic, optical devices allow us to see beyond the limits of human vision.By heating, shaping, grinding and polishing we can alter glass and its’ refractive properties. The most minimal change in thickness or shape transforms how light travels through glass. Under close observation, a trained eye can see marks made on a piece of glass thousands of years old and know the process by which it was created. Tool lines and indications of heating methods become archived for an eternity. Each piece of glass has a story of its’ creation embedded in its being. My work uses repurposed lenses and hot cast glass housed in custom built projectors. As the components are aligned in a new configuration the lens becomes the mediator into the textural patterns of cast glass. An image that is a pure translation of object to projected surface emerges. This work is offered as a counterpoint to the deluge of images that we are inundated with on a daily basis. It invites the viewer to see beyond their visual limitations to experience light and the world around them." - Erin Taylor
Clip featuring Nic Koller's () wall of paintings, on display as part of our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. Show runs through Oct 31st. More info about SPACE:LIGHT, as well as upcoming announcements on closing night performances, can be found via link in our bio.
"I make the familiar strange. I use many layers to convolute images. I deconstruct and reconstruct common people and the places they live. I obstruct and mutate my paintings by projecting video onto their surfaces, embracing the uncertainty, impurity, visual newness, and tension this creates. I hope to encourage the painted figure to dance and move, to fill in informational gaps and push painting towards new possibilities.
I think about the various modernist manifestos, their rebuttals of the status quo, and the continual rebirthing of how we paint. I think about beginnings and endings. I’m fascinated by the ever-growing human relationship with the digital, and I use consumer-grade technology such as iPhones & home projectors to mirror the integration of the analog and digital that I see in daily life. I’m interested in modern short attention spans and what it might take to hold our gazes longer. I’m interested in the over-stimulated, over-exposed space that many of us live in, the digital landscape on full blast.
For me, these new painting works are partially about light and light’s importance to discovery and sight. I think of Prometheus, the myth of the cave, camera obscura and the lightbulb. I think of the television, the computer, the smartphone, and how our current digital landscape is a spectacle made possible by light. I am interested in the interplay and causality between painting, photography, film, video & animation- the starting point of each and how they can begin to blend back into each other." -Nic Koller
Linda Loh's "Beyond Agog" is on view now through October 31, as part of our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery.
"Beyond Agog", is a video derived from the artist’s virtual reality project “Agog”, 2021. “Agog” is an exploratory experience in a sublime space with luminous and colour-saturated structures towering above and around, with various perceptual phenomena and sound to explore and encounter. The works connect to the artist’s research into Neoplatonism and the sublime. While this video is no substitute for the VR experience, it takes on a life of its own by embodying the transitional experiences of wonder from that speculative, non-ordinary “world”. Fleeting encounters and shifting views present precarious moments of clarity between the elusive and ephemeral realms. Light and sound potentially transport and shift perception beyond everyday experience, and the artist connects these transrational ideas to experiences described by Neoplatonic philosophers. Neoplatonism is a lesser known corner of ancient philosophy, yet one that has influenced both (so-called) Eastern and Western traditions. Research into Neoplatonism and the sublime validates that Western culture has, despite appearances, long recognised ineffable experiences as an intrinsic part of human psychology. That acquaintance with these experiences could shift consciousness and transform innate behaviour towards the “good” is both culturally relevant and timely: alternate realities that could be possible.
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A huge thank you to all of the artists, curators, sponsors and visitors that helped bring SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality together at Plaxall Gallery, allowing us to explore a multitude of realities that challenged the bounds of space and time. Through these works, different worlds, dreams, timelines, and portals made of various light elements were brought to life. Curators Rita Jiménez Patrice Scott Sponsors Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery & Queens Council on the Arts Artists Maximus Clarke Valeria Divinorum Nic Koller Ksenia Linda Loh Sam Moree Steve Pavlovsky Geo Stadnik Erin Taylor Everything Good Studio Special thanks to Linda Law, Martina Mrongovius and Edjo Wheeler. Clip of closing weekend performance featuring Sam Moree's hologram and Shoko Tamai (Ninja Ballet), his collaborator, performing a dance entitled: Out of the Hologram. #light #lightart #spacelight #space #reality #hologram #holography #licartists #plaxallgallery #installationart #darkspace #performance #exhibition #gallery #art #artist
A little peek at Ksenia Salion's installation DREAMS, part of our SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality group exhibition closing this Sunday at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. Catch the final days of the show. Open today 5-9pm and this weekend 2-9pm! #light #lightart #spacelight #dreams #reflection #exhibition #gallery #mirror #darkspace #installation
Steve Pavlovsky's (Liquid Light Lab) 'Light Portal' will be on view at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery through this weekend. Your last chance to catch all of the amazing SPACE:LIGHT Alternate Reality artists is this Sunday. For gallery times and upcoming info on special performances taking place this Saturday: https://holocenter.org/exhibition/space-light-2021 Liquid Light Lab is the work of Steve Pavlovsky, a multi-dimensional light artist from New York City. A majority of his work utilizes liquid projection, experimental media, and hand-made organic elements first seen in the Psychedelic Light Shows of the 1960s. Following on the visual music traditions of Kandinsky, Thomas Wilfred, and The Joshua Light Show, Mr. Pavlovsky invokes the sublime and spiritual. Building upon an analog relationship to Light and Time, Pavlovsky has created Liquid Light Lab, a living, breathing, visual expression of music, nature, and the human spirit. Concurrent with live performance and installation, Liquid Light Lab is also a vehicle for public information about Light Shows, and provides tools and guidance to other artists around the world. #light #lightart #gallery #exhibition #art #artwork #artist #spacelight
Everything Good Studio's Curtain of Light is an interactive volumetric projection installation. In it, a barrier of light divides the gallery space - which visitors are encouraged to push against. The ethereal boundary moves and emanates sound in response to the touch of those that approach it. "It has become clear that we are living in an increasingly divided and isolationist world, where each person inhabits their own alternate reality. However, many of these perceived divisions are superficial. Curtain of Light highlights these arbitrary and destructive divisions. Although both the physical and psychological walls that divide us may seem solid and unmoving, we show how fragile these constructs are. When you start to resist and push back, they fall away. Via this work, we create an environment which forces people to confront the barriers between them. As an interactive art installation that is open to the public, our goal is to create a work that encourages strangers to interact and connect with one another. Particpating in Curtain of Light acts as a catalyst for dissolving barriers and bringing people together through a common experience." - Jack Kalish & Rachel Ciavarella of Everything Good Studio You can experience Curtain of Light at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery now through SPACE:LIGHT's closing day October 31st. More info: https://holocenter.org/exhibition/space-light-2021 #light #lightart #gallery #exhibition #art #artwork #artist #spacelight #projectionmapping #interactive
Maximus Clarke's (@maximus_clarke) I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY is on view for a few more days as part of our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. "I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY consists of an anaglyph 3D video loop projected into the middle of a large, empty wooden frame hung on the gallery wall. Viewers wearing red/blue glasses experience the images projected inside the frame three-dimensionally, as if seeing them through a window or portal. The video consists of a sequence of views of a shattered monumental marble head from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As the eyeless head scans slowly back and forth, a tunnel of glowing, pulsating squares recedes behind it into a twilit sky. Thematically, the installation — which takes its title from a poem by Emily Dickinson — explores the power of imagination as our best tool for understanding experience. Our sensory perceptions of the world are continually integrated by our imaginative faculties, and it is through this mental synthesis that we actually encounter reality in all its depth and mystery." #light #lightart #gallery #exhibition #art #artwork #artist #spacelight #3D #3Dart #videoart #anaglyph
Clip featuring Nic Koller's (@nickoller) wall of paintings, on display as part of our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. Show runs through Oct 31st. More info about SPACE:LIGHT, as well as upcoming announcements on closing night performances, can be found via link in our bio. "I make the familiar strange. I use many layers to convolute images. I deconstruct and reconstruct common people and the places they live. I obstruct and mutate my paintings by projecting video onto their surfaces, embracing the uncertainty, impurity, visual newness, and tension this creates. I hope to encourage the painted figure to dance and move, to fill in informational gaps and push painting towards new possibilities. I think about the various modernist manifestos, their rebuttals of the status quo, and the continual rebirthing of how we paint. I think about beginnings and endings. I’m fascinated by the ever-growing human relationship with the digital, and I use consumer-grade technology such as iPhones & home projectors to mirror the integration of the analog and digital that I see in daily life. I’m interested in modern short attention spans and what it might take to hold our gazes longer. I’m interested in the over-stimulated, over-exposed space that many of us live in, the digital landscape on full blast. For me, these new painting works are partially about light and light’s importance to discovery and sight. I think of Prometheus, the myth of the cave, camera obscura and the lightbulb. I think of the television, the computer, the smartphone, and how our current digital landscape is a spectacle made possible by light. I am interested in the interplay and causality between painting, photography, film, video & animation- the starting point of each and how they can begin to blend back into each other." -Nic Koller #light #lightart #gallery #exhibition #art #artwork #artist #spacelight #video #videoart #projection #painting
"Understanding Holograms - From Lasers to Light Fields" begins today Oct 10/21 but registration for the course is still open for the next few days for those who want to join us at the last minute. 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. The hologram in the video is by Fine Artist Dora Tass. #holograms #holographicart #hologramcourses #holography #lightfields #lenticulars #ar #vr #peppersghost #art #artist #3D #light #design #projection #lightart #fineart #zoom #onlinecourse #workshop #neon #scifi #glass #glassart
Valeria Divinorum's “The Oculus”, featured in our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. "The Oculus is a site-specific immersive installation that uses a stained-glass panel, motors and LED lights. The work exists in a room containing a minimum of 3 walls. When walking into the room the viewer will see in the center a glass panel hanging, spinning very slowly. On each wall there will be a corresponding light installed casting colors and shadows through the center piece. The overall experience for the viewer is to enter a room that is entirely immersed in slowly shifting reflective light textures and patterns. The “Oculus” brings forward a contemporary vision of our deepest fears – timelessness, the mysteries of life and death, the unknowable. As the viewer explores the space the passing of light conveys the natural cycle of corporal decomposition: rebirth through transformation into earthly nourishment. Humans, as earthly beings, cannot avoid this conflict with nature and death. In contrast, the multi-dimensional, fractal imagery of the stained-glass panel invokes the spiritual essence of the soul and its ability to transcend physical debt. My work plays with the articulation between physical space (walls/architecture) and intangible space (light and shadows). Light reacts with my pieces to form immersive reflections and in turn uniquely transforms every viewer’s experience. Each geometric shape defies its form as it casts a presence according to the availability of light, scattering colors and patterns across the room. In this experience the borders are not confined, but extend as far as the light can travel. This site-specific work is an allegory of the human connection with nature. It establishes a bridge with the human body and math that appears in nature. The Oculus invites one to have a deeper contemplation of our universe, and to shift one’s perception of reality." You can see Valeria's piece and others on view thr
Our SPACE:LIGHT exhibition runs through October 31, and throughout the next few days, we will be profiling all of the artists currently still on display at Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery. First up is George Stadnik: Ghost Light Lumia 2020, 1/1 Dimensions: 72" diameter x 84" vertical Components: Antique Light Stand (courtesy Joshua White Collection) incandescent display light, electric fan. Panels are constructed of wood, paper, inkjet prints and optically reactive materials. "The piece was originally created for the Old Castle Theatre, in Bennington, VT. I was on display there from November 2020 through March 2021. I provided a "porch light" for the theatre when it was dark, because of pandemic regulations. A variety of temporary and permanent acquisition options are available to individual collectors and institutions." #light #lightart #art #artist #artwork #gallery #exhibition
An exhibition of light art from homes and closed venues during May 2020. As we isolated to slow the pandemic artists created installations and projections, sending messages of hope and forging connections around the world. #LightWindows Here is glimpse at some of the LIGHT WINDOWS projects with music recorded during one of the International Day of Light live streams – a collaboration between Steve Pavlovsky (Liquid Light Lab) with composer Ricardo Romaneiro. Explore the installations and performances at http://holocenter.org/light-windows #holocenterNYC #idl2020 #seethelight #lightart
Tracy Abbott Szatan 'Mnemoptics' LIGHT WINDOWS, E. 7th St Brooklyn 11218 New York #LightWindows Final performance Saturday May 30, 8:45-9:15pm (check the HoloCenter.org map for where to look if you are local) 'Mnemoptics is a projected light installation in which bodies of refracted light, like people, co-exist, encounter, influence and emerge from one another. A study of light and of relations, Mnemoptics explores the interplay of color as a parallel to the myriad ways in which individuals can affect each other, and on how these relationships become the building blocks for larger networks and structures.' - Tracy Abbott Szatan, 2020 Nearby and online from 9:15pm is 'Ocean Ave' an aquatic projection of live liquid visuals by Genevieve HK & Rachael Guma – A Clockface Orange @clockfaceorange #tracyabbottszatan #spacelight #saturdaynightart #projectionart #feelingwithlight #brooklynstreetart #liquidlightshow #SeeTheLight
Meet Sky Rolnik the developer of Draw With Within Water at the HoloCenter - Sunday September 29 @1pm This collaborative augmented reality project is at the HoloCenter on Governors Island every weekend 11am -5pm until October 27 The project keeps evolving, So stay tuned. #virtualreality #augmentedreality #creativetechnology #nyctech #echoAR #jumpintothelight
The Center for the Holographic Arts – HoloCenter, is a platform for artists working with light. Six artists share their practice for the first International Day of Light in 2018. Visit the exhibition 'Artist Photonics' at the HoloCenter on Governors Island May 4 - June 10, 2018 http://holocenter.org/artist-photonics supported by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
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An installation by Philippe Boissonnet at Galerie d'art du Parc
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https://nypost.com/2020/05/15/artists-fill-their-windows-with-light-displays-for-isolation-exhibit
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