Holography A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture
Thursday, 05 November 2020 11:44 Published in Writing
Special Arts issue edited by Andrew Pepper and Published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
As part of MDPI's Arts publication, Andrew Pepper was invited to guest edit this special issue which deals with critical observations about the use and development of holography within visual arts and vulture.
Holography A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture.
A wide range of practitioners, artist, curators and observers have contributed chapters to the book in which they place critical presure on their own work or consider the inclusion of works with holography in cutlural venues.
Availabel as a hardback publication, which can be ordered directly from the publishers here,
a free PDF version which can be downloaded here
and as an online publication here.
ISBN 978-3-03936-226-4 (Hbk)
ISBN 978-3-03936-227-1 (PDF)
Contributers include:
Angela Bartram
Sydney Dinsmore
M. Melissa Crenshaw
Andrew Pepper
Pearl John
August Muth
Jacques Desbiens
Doris Vila
Mary Harman
Preface to ”Holography—A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture”
This Special Issue attempts to provide a platform for the critical discussion, reflection and analysis of holography, as a process and methodology within the work of creative practitioners. The Issue examines, through the values and vocabulary of artists and curators, how this medium has developed as a considered practice and where pressure can be placed upon the critical principles of this relatively young medium. The participants published here have taken a risk, not only through the public examination of their development, but also by attempting to contextualise the use and display of holography within a contemporary, cultural framework. I want to thank the contributors of this Special Issue, who share my curiosity towards the critical investigation and contextualisation of our work and ideas in the sphere of creative holography.
Andrew Pepper
Special Issue Editor
A new book, edited by Andrew Pepper, published by MDPI Switzerland
Holography A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture, brings together key artists, curators and observers to offer a critical reflection on the development of holography in the visual arts.
Published by MDPI Switzerland, it is available in hardback or as a free PDF download.
Title: Three - Nine
Date: 2016
Materials: 35mm slide + projector, gallery plinths, illuminated wall, digital reflection hologram,
Size: Gallery Installation
Notes: Developed from explorations initiated in the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
Subsequent staging and testing at Primary Studio's Film Free and Easy, October 2015.
Installed as part of the Alternative Document Exhibition, Project Space Plus, Lincoln, UK, the piece incorporates three 35mm slide projectors, each projecting a single image of a rectangle (and bisecting line) onto the gallery wall.
Other work with the 'three planes' digital hologram has been undertaken in a variety of locations.