Wrinkly Glass Holography

Class Description:

In this three hour workshop, students will create shifting patterns of floating color in space without the mindlessness of AI. Professor Wesly will expound his theories on holographic imagery and show how to abuse the medium creatively to tantalize the sense of vision. About the artist: Ed Wesly's life was changed when he witnessed one of the pioneers of holography record a couple of holograms at a photography teachers convention and got the bug to set up his own lab.  He fulfilled his photo-historian's dream of meeting not the 19th century inventors of photography but those of 20th century holography and worked and partied with them.  His holographic experience includes working at FermiLab, Magnaflux, Northwestern University, et al., plus he has taught hundreds of students at the Lake Forest College Holography Workshops, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the School of Holography at Museum of Holography/Chicago.  He is the sole proprietor of the only functioning research grade holography lab in the City of Chicago and still continues to practice the fine art of wavefront reconstruction for fun and profit.