Up the Stairs

The ‘Up the Stairs’ series of multiplex holograms layer 360 degree video footage to capture the act of climbing up stairs.  The spatial rhythm of this action is mapped into a vertically animated image.   The cut and layered sequences fuses together through the shared rhythm of the captured movement and the motion required to play the hologram.

These holograms were created for the stairwell of the Elba factory as part of the -1/MinusEins im Exil exhibition during Sommerloch festival in Wuppertal, September 2010  (http://sommerloch-wuppertal.de/)

The holograms have since been shown as part of:
'Through the holographic gaze' exhibition at Gallery 175, Insadong, Seoul, November 2010.
'An Urban Pirate's Life' Brooklyn Pirate clubhouse, Bushwick, New York, December 2010
'Dark Disco' Santos Party House, Manhattan, New York, February 2011
'The Emergent Holographic Scene' PostX, Ghent, November 2011

The holograms are each from a single piece of video footage recored into achromatic transmission holograms with 200 frames of vertical animation.
silver-halide emulsuon laminated to laser etched plexiglass 380 x 490mm

to carry my bike up the stairs
captured Südbrücke (Southern Railway Bridge) Cologne 2010
the first thing was to climb up the stairs
Captured Chapel Island, Budapest, 2010
up and down the spiral stairs 
captured  Severinbrücke Cologne 2010

© Martina Mrongovius