Interactive Holograms

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Michael Bleyenberg is an artist who works with "Light Architecture", works of art that are tangible rather than solid and are created through the ephemeral medium of light. Using optical devices, the Cologne-based artist works with light to rethink the traditional forms of visual and artistic expression. Bleyenberg is highly conscious of his role as a contemporary artist, believing that today's artist should be able to look beyond traditional art and explore and adopt new environments, such as science and technology which affect the way human beings are represented in art.
 
At the core of his work at present are holographic light foils embedded within glass and mirrors which, as a result of light refraction, create an impermanent light and colour play and a new visual architecture. He is interested in bringing the permanence of architecture into creative tension with ephermal light. Light in this way plays with surfaces and structures, enhancing transparency.
 
Bleyenberg will show at the Interactive Museum his Eyescape X, a hologram embedded within two glass panels. As the viewers moves towards the hologram, the light, colour and shapes of the hologram alters fluidly to create an ephemeral and protean work of art. See a video of the colour shifting and shape altering on the artist's website here: http://www.holonet.khm.de/Eyefire/movies.html
 
About the artist: Michael Bleyenberg studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf/Munster, and the Academy of Fine Arts Braunschweig, Germany. Trained as a painter, Bleyenberg eventually replaced his brushes and canvas with lasers and computers and works almost exclusively with the medium of light. Bleyenberg describes his unique use of light as a way to combine and discuss two prevailing “field forces” of light and space in art, as well as in architecture. He focuses on building applications such as light facades or light sculptures that form a display that connects the interior and exterior environments in an architectural space.