Dieter Jung, an outstanding hologram artist, professor emeritus for Creative Holography and Light Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Member of the MIT Advisory Council on Art-Science-Technology, Artist-in-Residence grant, Museum of Holography New York, now lives and works in Berlin.
Dieter Jung was born 1941 in Bad Wildungen, Germany. He was not only the pioneer to create holographic art ,but also the artist to combine art and technology. Dieter’s art career began with Theology at Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin , who then successively went to study art at Academy of Visual Arts Berlin and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts Paris and then studied experimental flim in Berlin. It was at that moment that Dieter happened to know holography and then started his creation of this new art. It has been more than 35 years for Dieter to devote himself working in this new medium, extending it` s limits. He has had lectures and exhibitions in more than forty countries around the world: Europe、America、South America and Asia since 1970. Many of his works were honoured by international Awards and collected by famous mesuems, such as Brooklyn Museum New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MIT Museum, Cambridge/ Ma, Kunsthalle Hamburg etc.
In the exhibition Flying Colors, Moments of Seeing, Dieter uses light、movement、time and space to fully display the creation skeleton and logic concept of the combinations of art and technology. Flying Colors means the artist applies natural light and laser beams as his paints; prisms, glass and screens as expanded canvas. With varying and unusual materials, combinations of wide-ranging technologies and interwoven structures he builds a joyful Garden of Light, illuminated with colors lighter than air. Moments of Seeing means the artist attempts to explore some different layers of life by visualizing his experiences within the transitions and transformations of light and shadow, sharing with a wider audience what he finds touching and inspiring. Because of the intended relationships between the visible and the invisible, above and below, the known and the unknown, heaven and earth, science and art, left and right, front and back, the viewer might perceive an introduction to the cosmology of light and the forces and energies which continually surround us, creating delicately balanced interplays of energies and vibrations in which even the slightest movement has a magic impact performing the delicate acrobatics of gravity and light . Flying Colors, Moments of Seeing shows the spectators 62 art works including prints from 2009 to 2010 , historical holograms from 1985 and new creations from 2010. However, some works and installations were especially made for the exhibition at The OCT Art & Design Gallery , such as TransOptics and Shenzhen Mobile. This holographic Shenzhen Mobile includes over 40 different holograms.
Dieter focus his arts less on the concrete object, but more on the abstract geometry to compose the holographic images .Because Dieter regards holography as an extremely interactive media, creating a playful and always unpredictable relationship between the audience and the works. Dieter really likes to share this dynamic relationship between spectators、artist and art work.. Although Art in general is greatly concerned about communication with the audience, holography quickly upgrades this communication level to a highly interactive dialogue. When going through the light space of hologram, , the spectators will co-exist in the same surface with the light to experience uncertain and sustainable changing views of different space levels﹑color 、visual according harmonically to the movement of the view. In Dieter’s opinion, interaction is a important way to share and understand his touching and inspiring ideas with the audiences
Besides creating holograms with laser light, Dieter is using oscillating and interfering wave lines for his prints to introduce a unique concept: All the image information in the prints are only stored and visible in those delicate modulations. For example, while we looking at the print of Salvador Dali from a distance, we perceive quite a clear portrait of this important artist. Approaching the image close and close all the image information is only visible in the oscillating lines and the image seems to disappear.
While looking at a hologram, we can find the same phenomena of appearance and disappearance of the image.
Stay in front of a hologram and see if you can stop doing nothing.
