{"id":19882,"date":"2013-06-07T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=19882"},"modified":"2013-06-07T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:58:07","slug":"seeing-is-believing-jeff-robbs-holographic-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2013\/06\/07\/seeing-is-believing-jeff-robbs-holographic-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing is Believing: Jeff Robb’s holographic sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"

After producing Chris Levine\u2019s<\/a> large-scale holographic stereogram of Kate Moss<\/a>, sculpture artist Jeff Robb unveils his own solo show this week in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Artist 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>\n

What do the first two sculptures, depicting a child and swirling mass, set the viewer up for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They 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>\n

Maybe. 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>\n

It’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>\n

This is a three-dimensional ambisonic soundscape by John Rawls.<\/p>\n

How would you describe your show to a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 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>\n

Absolutely. 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>\n

Certainly 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>\n

I 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>\n

There 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