Dan Schweitzer
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Materials:: 		1 Wish
1998
8 x 10 inches
Unique
One step rainbow
hologram
Bronze, glass
 
For nearly two decades Schweitzer’s art has involved ideas or feelings directly related to the human condition combined with pushing the state of image making techniques. Early work involved using visual techniques to extend the normal parameters of the available space in the virtual frame of the hologram. Often extremely complex techniques were used, such as the use of holograms within holograms or using photographs as backgrounds. Animated elements render the illusion of movement through optical techniques by creating a kind of hyper parallax. A reduction and simplification of holographic imagery occurred later and the holographic moment became theatricalised, using stagelike settings to address the issues of space, time and color. These more recent explorations are staged in the projected, or real, image arena, where light and matter can be inter related and juxtaposed.

“Light seems to me the stuff that dreams are made of. So where does that light come from?" (D. Dark, circa 1974) “In dreams and thought "the seeing" is clear, lucid and lacks the texture grain and convention of corporeal external vision. Using light to investigate so many unanswered questions seems a more direct tool and enhances the expression of thought and ideas, while the holographic recording echoes the complexity of imagination itself. In the end the goal is to simplify all this, to distill it, make it concrete and to go on dreaming.” D. Schweitzer
 
Biography
Dan Schweitzer began in theater arts at Penn State. He studied acting with Warren Robertson, and holography with Steve Benton at the New York School of Holography. He founded the New York Holographic Laboratories in 1990. He received four Shearwater Foundation Award in holography. He has had extensive international exhibitions at the Sherry Frumkin Gallery, CA, Scrisso Gallery, CA, Museum of Holography, NYC, Museum of Holography, Koln, Museum of Art, Hamberg, MIT Museum, MA, Akademie der Kunste, Germany, Saramenha Gallery, Rio de Janiero, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., Wellington Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, London Science Museum, England, The New Museum, NYC, National Geographic, Washington D.C. Selected public collections include: MIT, Museum of the Statue of Liberty, NY, Center of Art & Technology, Karlsruhe, Museum of Photography, Paris, Museum of Holography, Paris, Museum of Holography, Chicago, and the Museum of Holography & Visual Media, Pulheim, Germany. He is also in numerous private collections.

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