<\/a><\/p>\nArtist Jeff Robb\u2019s Three Acts of Will<\/em> is an holographic sculptural installation integrating cutting-edge 3D image-making, interactive lighting and ambisonic sound. Amidst the \u201csacred geometry\u201d of flame-flickering ice-pyramids, sensual nude blurs, and silvery monoliths straight out of Space Odyssey,\u00a0<\/em>Robb indisputably proves himself a master magician of the dark (and light) holographic arts.<\/p>\nWhat do the first two sculptures, depicting a child and swirling mass, set the viewer up for?<\/strong><\/p>\nThey tell you about the beginning and ending of the show. The animation is the ether: a psychedelic-colored ball.<\/p>\n
Was it inspired by an acid trip?<\/strong><\/p>\nMaybe. It’s also a lot of fun. Quite frankly, I could stare at it for hours.<\/p>\n
What do the hanging pyramids represent?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s the pregenitor of life, as a prehuman cave of infinite possibilities through a hybrid technology of video and three dimensional structures. In each pyramid, there are a million different worlds. The longer you stare, the more images emerge. These things have their own life.<\/p>\n
What music accompanies the installation?<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a three-dimensional ambisonic soundscape by John Rawls.<\/p>\n
How would you describe your show to a child?<\/strong><\/p>\nA child would just have a sense of awe and adventure, run around and enjoy it. I don\u2019t think an explanation is particularly required.<\/p>\n
So people can enjoy the show on a purely visceral level?<\/strong><\/p>\nAbsolutely. I\u2019d rather they feel they\u2019d been somewhere — an alien world, the future, the past. You walk off the streets and suddenly you\u2019re in this crazy place full of amazing things.<\/p>\n
You described Act II as “birth — the wrenching of the ethereal to the real.” Is being born a violent act?<\/strong><\/p>\nCertainly the change in energies is a violent physical process. So these human figures are blended, stretched in a liminal state, almost like ghosts. When something becomes real, there\u2019s a pain like the Big Bang.<\/p>\n
Do you consider yourself a pioneer of holography?<\/strong><\/p>\nI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything quite like this. I respect the real pioneers in the 60’s and 70’s who were working blind, and by trial and error.<\/p>\n
What distinguishes this project from previous holographic works?<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are two levels: the technique of the time-lapsed systems I use to capture the figures and the unique content . A recording of the space of humans\u2019 movements: action made solid. Hopefully it’s seen more as sculpture than photographic.<\/p>\n