Grants Awarded 2008 | Grants Awarded in 2008 |
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The International Holography Fund is pleased to announce that a total of $150,000.00 has been awarded to 9 projects during 2008. The Center for the Holographic Arts, Long Island City, USA. $50,000.00 Provided for a second year to support their international artist-in-residence program which invites a selection of new and established artists in the field of creative holography to work at the Center in New York. This is cycle 8 of their long-running residency program, which has produced several hundred artworks since its inception. Artists are selected by an independent panel of experts and many of the pieces produced in these residencies are shown at exhibitions world-wide. www.holocenter.org Banbury Museum, Banbury, UK. $5,000.00 This is the second part of a two-year award towards the costs of curating the creative section of the exhibition “Holograms, the First 60 Years”. This touring exhibition has already been seen in three UK Museum venues, where it celebrated the 60th anniversary of the invention of holography in the UK and broke attendance records at each location. Work was selected from the London-based Jonathan Ross Hologram Collection, with additional pieces included from prominent artists in the field, helping to complement this survey exhibition. Launched at the Banbury Museum, UK, on 1st March 2008, it then moved to: The Oxfordshire Museum, UK. 10 May - 6 July 2008; Rugby Museum & Art Gallery, UK. 6 – 31 August 2008; and is currently on show at the Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, UK, until 21st March 2009. www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/banburymuseum All of these venues offered free entrance to the exhibition. Rainbow Galactica, Traveling exhibition, Australia, UK, Iceland, Germany, USA $5,000 Awarded to Australian artist Amy Rush to assist with the preparation and organisation of this exhibition which included a number of works from Amy’s MFA research as well as pieces by Guillermo Heinze, Martina Mrongovious, Paula Nino Ramez and Park Joo Su. The Bas-Saint-Laurent Museum, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada. $10,000.00 Awarded to assist with the purchase of “Genesis 555” by Canadian artist Georges Dyens. The Museum has been collecting holography for a few years and identified this work by Dyens to add to its collection. As with all hologram purchases supported by the IHF, the artist is paid the full commercial price of their work, which is then included in the purchasing institution’s collection, where it will be shown, archived and exhibited. www.mbsl.qc.ca The Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany. $10,000.00 Awarded to assist with the purchase of “ Sonne und Mond”, a dot-matrix holographic optical element by Romanian artist Waldemar Mattis-Teutsch. This is the first hologram to be included in the Museum’s collection and had previously been shown in exhibitions there. www2.ingolstadt.de Linda Law, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. $16,000.00 Awarded to support the research, preparation and presentation of a series of university- based workshop sessions which will introduce creative holography to students and artists working with digital media. Washington University has established a new department (DXARTS) to focus on the innovative approach to new media and is enthusiastic about allowing its students and faculty access to creative holography. Linda Law, who has designed the workshops, gave a public lecture in December 2008 as an introduction to the series of practical sessions during spring 2009. Michael Page/The Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario, Canada. £14,000.00 This award is the first of its kind for an artist-out-of-residence program (AOOR). The IHF acknowledges the importance of access to creative facilities by artists and has a strong commitment to supporting this through established artist-in-residence programs. This new AOOR initiative, based on previous teaching and research at the Ontario College of Art, is a joint project, developed by artist Michael Page in collaboration with the college and the Photon League, Canada. Developments in digital holography and remote file transfer mean that artists need not be in a specific location (a holography studio) to make a hologram, but can use creative digital tools and send resulting files for synthesis into a hologram to a remote location. The AOOR will invite an international selection of artists to participate (some new to the medium) and eventually produce a limited-edition book incorporating holographic and graphic pages. www.ocad.ca The International Symposium on Display Holography, Shenzhen, China. $20,000.00 Awarded to Professor Tung Jeong (USA), to support artists attending this international symposium. Past ISDH meetings were established at, and have taken place in, Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA, which brought together artists, scientists, engineers and producers. This is the fist time such a symposium will be located in China and it will take place from 13 - 18th July 2009. An international selection committee, organised by Prof. Jeong, has selected a number of artists who will receive funds to help with travel and accommodation. The organisers of the ISDH have also provided generous support towards the participation of artists. www.isdh.org.cn The HOLOcenter, Seoul, Korea. $18,000.00 Awarded to assist with the organisation and development of the center’s artist-in-residence program established by artist Juyong Lee, professor at the Korean National University for the Arts . During 2008, the HOLOcenter’s A-I-R program was expanded. Six artists were selected by an independent panel of art professionals to work there for 2 weeks each. The resulting work was exhibited in the center’s gallery. This is the first year of the larger AIR program and draws on experience dating back to its first residency in 2003. www.holocenter.or.kr |