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