Pearl on TV

Pearl being interviewed on local Minsk TV.

During the HoloExpo 2011 conference in Minsk I got interviewed on TV about my work and the exhibition.  Check out this page for more information on the fantastic exhibition - if you can read Russian!

Holograms in Seoul - the Garden of Light

Typhoon 8"x10" Reflection Hologram, Pearl John, 2009

My holograms Through Sound and Typhoon (produced with Iñaki Beguiristain's help) are currently on show in The Garden of Light Exhibition, organised by Juyong Lee.

From Lithuania to Belarus

HoloExpo-2011 Installation View

In October I travelled to Minsk with artist Isabel Azevedo to take part in the HoloExpo 2011 conference.  The accompanying exhibition at the National Academy of Science of Belarus was fantastic.   Isabel and I both exhibited holograms and were interviewed by the local TV station about our work.

There were approximately 150 holograms being exhibited; the collection included display holograms, museum works and fine art holograms.  Many of the holograms were full-colour and animated.
 

Boots by Isabel Azevedo

Isabel's hologram Boots, was stunning, the silver boots kicked as you walked past them. Other works of art that I admired included Paula Dawson's 'Luminous Presence; and Martin Richardson's Over the Rainbow.

Paula Dawson's Luminous Presence 2007.

 Over the Rainbow by Martin Richardson

Isabel and Michel Grossman are shown in front of my holograms Typhoon 2009 and Through History.  

The exhibition is open to the public at the Academy until December.

Holograms in Belarus!

Thanks to an invitation from Dr. Stanislovas Zacharovas, the Director of Geola, I attended the fantastic HoloExpo 2011 conference in Belarus. I was sponsored by the conference organisers – ‘Holography Industry’ and was very grateful to be able to attend.

Stas & Ramunas Bakanas in front of the Academy

I presented a paper on the creative development of digital animated holography, "From Analogue to Digital: Fine Art in a new Medium" and exhibited a couple of my holograms in the accompanying holography exhibition at The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

As a result I was interviewed on local TV, invited to write an article for a Russian Cinema magazine and received an invitation to the Belarus State University Physics Department to teach them about Outreach. Hurray!

Star time - 12 million seconds

The image above - produced by Dr Tony Bird an astronomer at the University of Southampton - is part of a lenticular animation which represents Tony's 'artist's impression' of two stars observed by the INTEGRAL Satellite, called 'the High-Mass X-ray Binary IGR J17391-3021', The larger object is a supergiant star orbited by a neutron star. The Supergiant emits a dense wind which has a stable disk-like structure at the equator. Although the source was discovered in 1997 by the XTE telescope, this picture is inspired by 12 million seconds of hard X-ray observations of the the system with the INTEGRAL telescope. Lenticular imaging hasn't been used to display astronomical data before - so I'm introducing it into the Physics and Astronomy department.

Moving Time - a new application for lenticulars

I'm 'embedded' in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. I have asked members of staff from all three research groups - Quantum Light and Matter, Theory and Astronomy if I can have some data to animate which will be useful to them to use in conference posters which I don't believe has been done before. I'm hoping to get hold of some black hole data and images from LOFAR if possible to animate.

Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis has given me some data from the crossover of condensed Photons and Polaritons in microcavities to illustrate.

Images to follow...

This image shows data taken with pico-second laser pulses. I wanted to show images taken over very short time scales - and very long. from Nanotechnology to Cosmology.

3D Contour maps in Taiwan

It looks as though there is already research being done in the area of 3D mapping.  My fellow PhD research student Yin-Ren Chang in the Modern Holography Group at De Montfort has informed me that Chiang Mei-Yi a researcher in Taiwan has produced a research paper for her Master's degree entitled "The depth of spatial research in the holographic-stereo contour map".


However I don't believe anyone is looking at representing time in three-dimensions.  I hope not!