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Departments of Art, Physics Present Two Companion Exhibitions
Feb 28-March 16
Hopkins Hall Gallery
Opening Reception: Mon, Feb 28, 5-7 pm
The College of the Arts and College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences are teaming up to present a lively exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed holography artists Feb 28-March 16. Translating Solids: The Holographic Image will fill Hopkins Hall Gallery on campus with works by artists from the US, Europe and Australia. The show will include holographic transmission and reflection mixed-media sculptures and three-dimensional images, according to Harris Kagan, professor of physics who is organizing the exhibition along with Prudence Gill, gallery curator. An opening reception is planned on Mon, Feb 28, 5-7 pm in Hopkins Hall.Artists exhibiting works will include Larry Lieberman, Sam Moree, Ana Maria Nicholson, Doug Tyler, Scott Lloyd and others. Experimental works produced by students and faculty in the Art/Physics Holography Lab at Ohio State will also be featured, showcasing the success of this popular collaborative program between art and science.
Holography is a technique that allows the “recording and playback” of three-dimensional images, offering the viewer the advantages of perspective, parallax, form and content, according to Kagan. Holograms do not store visual information like ordinary photographs. Without the proper illumination, they appear blank. However, when illuminated properly, a hologram recreates the original scene or object in three dimensions. The light waves arriving from the hologram into the viewer’s eyes are the same as the light waves that were emitted from the original scene. The holographic process “preserves” the waves of light in space and time to recreate the image, Kagan explains.
A companion exhibition to Translating Solids in Hopkins Hall Corridor is Viewing the Invisible, an exhibition of images created as by-products of research in such disciplines as cognitive science, chemistry, medicine, engineering, physics, neurobiology, psychology and ophthalmology, which reveal aspects of the “hidden worlds” unique to each discipline.
These exhibitions are co-sponsored by the Department of Physics, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, College of the Arts, Department of Art, and Hopkins Hall Gallery & Corridor. Both exhibitions open Mon, Feb 28, and continue until Wed, March 16 in Hopkins Hall Gallery & Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall.
Gallery hours are Mon, Wed and Fri, 8 am-5 pm, and Tues, Thurs, 8 am-7 pm. The gallery closes at 3 pm on the final day of an exhibition. The exhibitions and reception are free and open to all. Call 292-5072 for more information.
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