Center for the Holographic Arts

10/02/2023

An amazing day! Packed with people, so many holographers in attendance, so much great work! Come up to Kingston to visit the show - Fridays - Sunday 12 - 5 pm at 518 Broadway, Kingston, NY12401

09/21/2023

You are cordially invited to the opening of our first show, "Iridescence", in our new gallery space at 518 Broadway in Kingston, NY!

Please join us for this groundbreaking event as we begin what will be an exciting period in our evolution as a Holographic Art Center. The show opens on 9/30/23 from 5 - 9 p.m. and will be open to the public Friday - Sunday, 12 - 5 p.m. until December 10th, 2023.

09/21/2023

You are cordially invited to the opening of our first show, "Iridescence", in our new gallery space at 518 Broadway in Kingston, NY! Please join us for this groundbreaking event as we begin what will be an exciting period in our evolution as a Holographic Art Center. The show opens on 9/30/23 from 5 - 9 p.m. and will be open to the public Friday - Sunday, 12 - 5 p.m. until December 10th, 2023.

09/12/2023

August Muth, one of the HoloCenter's board members, has donated one of his amazing holograms for an online raffle to raise funds for the HoloCenter. Details of the hologram are in the link in our bio! Many thanks for your generous gift. The winning ticket will be drawn at our next HoloSeminar on Sunday, November 22nd, 2023.

09/12/2023

August Muth, one of the HoloCenter's board members, has donated one of his amazing holograms for an online raffle to raise funds for the HoloCenter. To enter for your chance to win, visit: http://go.rallyup.com/augustmuthoriginalhologram

Many thanks August Muth for your generous gift. The winning ticket will be drawn at our next HoloSeminar on Sunday, November 22nd, 2023.

09/12/2023

Interested in recent developments in digital holographic technologies? Check out our upcoming online course on Computer-Generated Holography! This course aims to impart information about compositional concepts, techniques and procedures for creating source images used in the development of content for computer generated holograms. Taught by Jacques Desbiens, the 6-week course will kick off October 3rd, 2023. Sign up is now open! Find the link in our bio.

09/12/2023

As you await the opening of our new space, why not sign up for our upcoming online course on Computer-Generated Holography? This course aims to impart information about compositional concepts, techniques and procedures for creating source images used in the development of content for computer generated holograms. Taught by Jacques Desbiens, the 6-week course will kick off October 3rd, 2023. Sign up is now open!

https://www.internationalschoolofholography.com/computer-generated-holograms

08/07/2023

Exciting news for the future of the Holocenter! We have officially signed the lease for a new space in Kingston, New York.

The 1,600 sq ft gallery space and basement will be home to many exhibitions, artist-in-residence programs, educational opportunities and events over the coming years. This is a new era for Holography and we are in the right place in Kingston! A big thanks to Linda Law and all involved in supporting this move.

Put Saturday 9/30/23 on your calendar for the opening reception of our first exhibition. More details to follow.

12/13/2022

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...

11/11/2022

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.

11/09/2022

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...

11/07/2022

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.

09/14/2022

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.

09/13/2022

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!

09/12/2022

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.

09/12/2022

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!

09/10/2022

✨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

07/06/2022

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.

03/03/2022

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

11/13/2021

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

11/03/2021

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

11/03/2021

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.

10/29/2021

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

10/29/2021

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!

10/29/2021

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.

10/28/2021

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

10/27/2021

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.

10/27/2021

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."

10/25/2021

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!

10/25/2021

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

10/23/2021

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

10/23/2021

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.

10/21/2021

Holoseminar & raffle news!

There are a few days left to grab a spot in our next Holoseminar event, which will be an online celebration of the life and work of Fred Unterseher and Rebecca Deem - two important artists from the early days of Holography.

Join us on Sunday, October 24th at 1 pm EST for this joyful celebration of their lives with many key figures in Holography: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holoseminar-3-a-celebration-of-fred-unterseher-and-rebecca-deem-tickets-189851419707?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&fbclid=IwAR1RTZyI7wv_HtQY9einIwqwWxaTW5urkVe_RG3GPE8gZbWKlKau0G3wHME
We will also be drawing our raffle winner during the event, so there is still time to get your tickets for a chance to own an original August Muth hologram. Sales end 1pm Sunday: https://go.rallyup.com/hologram-raffle-1/Campaign/Details?fbclid=IwAR3Ehf6dmyGhMr9ul5qAgXNvVDo3E-Kw_zcG4jrx81f6my5BdVoSJSHtUbw