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Holography: How Artists Sculpt with Light, Space, and Time
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Commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, this text provides an overview of how artists have embraced holography within their practice. It was published to coincide with Deana Lawson's solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in which she included holograms alongside her photographic work. The exhibition ran from May - October 2021.
Holography: How Artists Sculpt with Light, Space, and Time
Illusion has been practiced in art for centuries. The painted effects of trompe l’œil, for example, have long been employed to highlight our thirst for trickery and demonstrate the artists’ technical prowess. In recent decades holograms have emerged as a new means to achieve such effects, and artists have begun to use them to explore opportunities beyond simple gimmickry.
Originally devised as an attempt to improve the resolution of electron microscopes in 1947, holograms have developed into a visual and technical phenomenon that provides scientists, engineers, researchers, and artists a new tool to explore the display of objects and spaces around them. Holograms fascinate us partly because they offer a novel way of sculpting with light and partly because they can reproduce three-dimensional objects in staggering high fidelity so convincing that they seem real.
Holography A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture
Thursday, 05 November 2020 Published in Writing Written by Andy Pepper Administrator Be the first to comment!
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
Writing
Saturday, 22 February 2014 Published in Writing Written by Andy Pepper Administrator Be the first to comment!2023
What happened to creative holography?, Medium.com, July 31
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Is your Hologram a Hoover? Medium.com, March 31
2021
Holography: How Artists Sculpt with Light, Space, and Time, Guggenheim, May 7 2021
2020
Holography A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture, Andrew Pepper (Ed.)Special Arts Issue, (Vol 8, Issue 3) MDPI, Switzerland, July 2020.
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03936-227-1
2018
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2017
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2014
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2013
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*periphery, Contributor, YH485 Press, UK, September 2009, pp 16.
2008
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2006
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2005
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2004
Something in the air: Stephen Benton and a ‘family’ reunion, Holographer.org, January 2004, site launch.
2002
Architectural Holography: Building with light, decorating with space, Royal Photographic Society Holography Group Conference on Holography, Art and Design. Royal College of Art, London, UK. 23rd March 2002.
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2001
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Building with Light: Holography, glass and architecture. This Side Up, No.,15, September 2001, pp 2-4 ISSN 1389 1707.
2000
Windows with memories: Creative holography in the real world. This Side Up, No.,10, June 2000, pp15-18. ISSN 1389 1707.
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1998
Holography - A Digital Community on the Internet. The Royal Photographic Society Holography Group.
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1997
The National Holographic Centre England: Proposal report. 6th International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, USA, SPIE proceedings Volume 358.
Artists in Conference - An international perspective. 6th International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, USA (co-author with D.E. Tyler), SPIE proceedings Volume 3358.
1996
Holography on the Internet: a useful resource or expensive distraction?, Practical Holography 10, San Jose, California, USA, SPIE proceedings, Volume 2652.
Seeing Things: Australian Holographic Art, Convergence, Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, John Libbey Media, Spring, Vol 2, No1, pp145 - 147.
1995
Holography as Large-Scale Event, Solart Global Network (Jürgen Claus editor), Leonardo, MIT Press, USA, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp 234.
Where is the Art?, Karas Tiny Magazine, Karas Studios, Madrid, Spain, December, pp3.
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1994
The art of collaboration: a conflict of disciplines or constructive relationship, 5th International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, USA,(co-author with Eric P. Krantz), SPIE proceedings, Vol 2333, pp 247 - 254.
Single exposure color mixing technique for rainbow "shadow" holograms, Practical olography 8, San Jose, California, USA (co-author with Eric P. Krantz), SPIE Proceedings.
Beyond the Gallery Ghetto. The Creative Holography Index, The International Catalogue for Holography, Monand Press, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, Vol 2, issue 2.
1993
Cataloguing creative holography: an historical necessity or contemporary illusion?, Quebec International Symposium on Holography, Quebec, Canada, SPIE Proceeding.
A single beam recording system for creative holography and education, Quebec International Symposium on Holography, Quebec, Canada, SPIE Proceedings.
1992
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1991
Creative Holography: Its Development in the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, International Symposium on Display Holography, July , Lake Forest, IL, USA, (Co-author with Dieter Jung), SPIE Proceedings Vol,1600.
1990
A Strength of Purpose: The International Congress on Art Holography, (re)Mark, September 1990, No 1.
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1989
Holographica Pulls the Crowds, Holographics International, Spring 1989, No 5, pp 19-20.
Display Holography in the UK: An Overview, Holographie-Jahrbuch/Holography-Yearbook 1989-90, pp 1. 65-1. 69.
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1988
Drawing in Space: A holographic system to simultaneously draw images on a flat surface and in three-dimensional space. PhD Thesis, Department of Fine Art, University of Reading, UK.
New Design For Holographic Camera, Holosphere, Fall, Vol 15, No 3, p 11.
School of Holography in LA., Holosphere, Fall, Vol 15, No 3, p 29.
Holography, Visual Medium or Cheap Trick? Art Monthly, December/January 1988/89, No 122, pp 9-13.
1987
Expansion of Holographic Film Products, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 15, No 1, pp 12-13.
1986
Holography: The History of the Word, Holosphere, Winter, Vol 14, No 1, p 11.
Hologrems Invade Britain, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 14, No 2, p 23.
Beyond Horror, Real Image, Royal Photographic Society Holography Group, Summer, No. 3, pp 9-10.
Holographic Illustration Becomes Reality, Holosphere, Fall, Vol 14, No 4, p 11.
1985
Holography in Publishing, Holosphere, Summer, Vol 13, No 3, p 6.
Holography: Treasures of the USSR, (Publication editor), Exhibition catalogue, Light Fantastic, July.
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1984
Storage Solutions for Orthodontics, Holosphere, Winter, Vol 12, No 6, p 45.
Design Council Highlights Embossing, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 12, No 7, pp 12-13.
German Museum Celebrates 5th Anniversary, Holosphere, Fall 1984/Winter 1985, Vol 13, No 1, pp 9-10.
Advanced Courses Begin in England, Holosphere, Fall 1984/Winter 1985, Vol 13, No 1, p 29.
Holography for Children, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 13, No 2, p 18.
Market Widens for Film Holograms, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 13, No 2, p 22.
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1983
Light Impressions to Expand its Impact within London Subsidiary, Holosphere, January, Vol 12, No 1, p 4.
"Holographic" Telephones Tested in Britain, Holosphere, February, Vol 12, No 2, pp 3-6.
Holographic Album Cover Released in Britain, Holosphere, Spring, Vol 12, No 3, pp 1-2.
Display Holography: Making Inroads in Britain, Holosphere, Fall, Vol 12, No 5, pp 18-20.
Holographic Viewing Made Simple, Holosphere, Fall, Vol 12, No 5, pp 18-22.
1982
Edwina Orr Explores for Temporal Sculptural Works, Holosphere, January, Vol 11, No 1, pp 4-5.
Works in Flux by Sam Moree, Holosphere, February, Vol 11, No 2, pp 3-4.
Van Riper to Exhibit/Perform at Museum of Holography, Holosphere, February, Vol 11, No 2, pp 4-5.
Holograms of Rebecca Deem, Holosphere, March, Vol 11, No 3, p 4.Schweitzer Residency Shows AIR Woes, Holosphere, May, Vol 11, No 5, pp 5-7.
Margaret Benyon's Pulsed Rainbows, Holosphere, June, Vol 11, No 6, pp 4-6.
Ruben Nunes: Twentieth Century Renaissance Man, Holosphere, July/August, Vol 11, No 7,8, pp 6-8.
Doug Tyler's Art of Simplicity, Holosphere, September, Vol 11, No 9, pp 4-5.
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1981
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1980
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Hlynsky and Sowdon, Making Art on the Fringe, Holosphere, May, Vol10, No 5, pp 1-3.
AIR Profile: John Perry, University of Vermont, Holosphere, October, Vol 10, No 10, pp 3-4.
AIR Profile: Holograms and Stained Glass - Scott Nemtzow, Holosphere, November, Vol 10, No 11, p 5.
Walter Spierings and the Impossible Triangle, Holosphere, December, Vol 10, No 12, pp 2-3.
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1979
Kinetic art: 3-dimensional luminous images projected into volumes of smoke (Pentrojection).
Leonardo , Autumn, Vol 12, No 4, pp 283-289.
Periphery
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 Published in Writing Written by Andy Pepper Administrator Be the first to comment!
*periphery
Edited by Aaron Juneau, Jonathan Watts and Harriet Mitchell
YH485 Press, September 2009
Limited to 1000 copies with 50 copies reserved to hold fish and chips in the borough of Great Yarmouth.
This was the first major collaborative publication by YH485 Press who have been working with London based curatorial initiative gymnasium to realise *periphery.
The collaboration is the result of Project Gymnasium initiated for the annual Out There Festival in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth for which three local artists were commissioned to produce moving image works responding to their locale.
The resulting vidoes were shown on a large screen situated along the 'Golden Mile' on Great Yarmouth's seafront. Rather than produce a catalogue relating to these works, gymnasium had in mind a newspaper that would bring together voices from diverse disciplines on one common theme - 'periphery'
Each artist was invited to include an image and text relating to their view of 'periphery.
The limited edition was available from the YH485 Press website and as a 'support' to eat chips out of during September that year!
The publication was be available to buy for £2.00 (free P and P) from the YH485 Press website. There was also be an online version, with extra contributions, availalbe to download from the publications section at YH485 Press.
Artists included in the paper publication are:
On the Edge Research, Jeremy Miller, Alice Carey, Mike Pearson, Rosemary Shirley, Duncan Higgins, Joanne Lee, Lawrence Bradby, Evi Grigolopoulou, Ann Churcher Clarke, Emma Cocker, Ian Hunter, Jo Robertson, Jonny Aldous, Lee Triming, Andrew Pepper, S Mark Gubb, Jennie Syson, Georgina Barnley, David Berridge/Hyun Jin Cho/David Johnson/Pippa Koszerek, Dean Kenning, Exocet, John Plowman, My Villages, Bruce Ayling, Theo Turpin/Frederico Campagna, Fiona Woods, David Reid/Fiona Maclaren, John Newling, Kathleen Coessens/Marie-Francoise Plissart.
