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Two works are on show in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of UNESCO’s Year of Light 2015 celebrations.
Vertical Liquid Supported and Lean, are on show in a new exhibition space at the recently renovated Elisseev Palace.
The show was launched at the start of an international symposium on display holography in June, and features examples of creative work in the field by a number of artists working with spatial imaging. It continues until the end of October 2015.
Lean 2014 and Vertical Liquid Supported 2011.
Special thanks to Andreas Sarakinos, one of the directors of the Hellenic Institute of Holography, for organising the inclusion of these works in the exhibition.
Three Projected Levels
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Title: Three Projected Levels
Date: 2015
Materials: Three 35mm slides, projectors & plinths
Size: 4 m wide (approx)
Installation: Gallery wall
Notes: Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
A row of 35mm Kodak Carousel slide projectors are located parallel to the gallery wall. Each contains a specially produced slide which is projected across the gallery onto the wall opposite.
The location, and structure, of the plinth which supports the 35mm slide projector is integral to the installation, offering a 'barrier' between the observer and the observed.
There are a series of questions raised around the nature of the illumination. Is the projector projecting the image, seen in the hologram, in a traditional manner? Where is the image located? Within the hologram, within the projector or some space between the two?
Title: Three Planes Transected
Date: 2015
Materials: Digital hologram, 35mm slide + projector
Size: Hologram 29 x 29 cm
Installation: Gallery wall
Notes: Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
The digital hologram containing three distinct planes of light, each punctuated by a rectangular hole, is displayed in a traditional format on the gallery wall.
Light from a 35mm slide is projected across the space to illuminate the holographic rectangle.
The location and structure of the plinth, which supports the 35mm slide projector, is integral to the installation, offering a 'barrier' between the observer and the observed.
There are a series of questions raised around the nature of the illumination. Is the projector projecting the image, seen in the hologram, in a traditional manner? Where is the image located? Within the hologram, within the projector or some space between the two?
Attempting to view the holographic image 'head on', at the point where traditional vanishing point perspective would become operative, caused the observer to obscure the illuminating source effectively 'switching off' the holographic image.
The use of semi-redundant technology (slide projector) as an integral aspect of the installation, alongside advanced imaging technology (digital holographics) and the vocabulary of gallery installation (through wall-based and museum plinths) attempt to raise question around the misconception of how holographic images are ‘projected’ and their 'place' in a display culture.
See also Curved 2001
Title: Elevated Voids
Date: 2015
Materials: Digital hologram, shuttered theatrical spotlight
Size: 29 x 29 x 60 cm
Installation: Gallery floor
Notes: Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
In the centre of a darkened space the rectangular hologram is displayed supported by a thin wooden plinth, illuminated directly from above by a shuttered theatrical spotlight.
Light falls onto the holographic surface, which in turn casts a shadow onto the floor below. The installation is part of the 'peripheral view' group of works, which attempts to dislocate the viewer's initial connection with the holographic image.
From the initial approach to the work the image in the hologram is not visible, only the structural arrangement which supports the holographic space.
As the viewer changes their point of observation and moves within the vertical viewing zone of the hologram, a series of three planes, each with a rectangular space, becomes visible.
One of these virtual surfaces 'sits' directly on the picture place of the hologram's surface, one protrudes into the observer's space and the third recedes into the hologram's space.
Title: Three Spaces
Date: 2015
Materials: Digital hologram, video camera, video monitor, and shuttered theatrical spotlight
Size: Hologram 29 x 29 cm
Installation: Gallery floor
Notes: Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
The first iteration of this installation which displays a live feed of the image from a digital hologram to a video monitor. Part of the 'peripheral view' group of works, it attempts to dislocate the viewer's initial connection with the holographic image.
The hologram, normally displayed like 'traditional' graphics on a wall is place, here, flat onto the gallery floor and illuminated from above by a framed theatrical spotlight. This tight rectangle of light illuminates the dark surface of the holographic recording.
On entering the installation viewers are presented with both this dark floor-based rectangle (with no discernible image visible) and a live video image of the hologram shown on a cubic video monitor.
The video monitor is illuminated by a small light source to generate a distinct shadow (a dark representation of a cube) onto the space in front of the screen.
The image in the holographic rectangle is visible when standing close to the surface of the hologram where three levels of 'surface', each punctured by a rectangular 'hole', can be seen.
See also Oblique Lean 2015