Holo/Olho (Holo/Eye)
1983
25 x 30 cm [10 x 16 in]
Silver halide reflection holograms mounted on wood and glass
Unique
Collection UECLAA, University of Essex, UK
Holopoetry
Eduardo Kac
Invented by Eduardo Kac in 1983, Holopoetry is a new poetic language predicated on the exploration of the specific properties of holography. Holopoems do not simply reproduce texts written for print; instead, holopoems develop new syntaxes through perceptual discontinuities, spatiotemporal inversions, semantically productive parallax, and a plethora of new literary procedures unique to them. Holopoems must be experienced in person, since viewers/readers make decisions in the act of looking that determine their experience. Between 1983 and 1993, Kac published (i.e., created and exhibited) 24 holopoems.
NOTE: The images below are not holopoems; they are documentation of holopoems and, as such, cannot account for the decisions made by viewers/readers in the act of reading real holopoems.Abracadabra
1984/85
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Collection of the Museu do Estado do Pará, Belém, Brazil (gift of the National Foundation for the Arts-Funarte, Brazil)
Second edition (white-light reflection photopolymer hologram): 2019
OCO
1985
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
White-light reflection silver halide hologram
Unique. Original lost.
Remade in 1989 by E. Kac also as a white light reflection silver halide hologram. Lost.
Remade in 2023 by E. Kac also as a white light reflection silver halide hologram
ZYX
1985
50 x 50 cm [20 x 20 in]
Laser transmission silver halide hologram displayed in white light
Unique. Original lost.
Chaos
1986
40 x 30 cm [16 x 12 in]
White-light reflection silver halide hologram
Edition of 2.
Collection of the MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
Ágora
1986
0.8 x 0.8 cm
Laser transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 3 + 1 flown to deep space.
Wordsl
1986
30 x 30 cm [12 x 12 in]
Integral white-light transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 2.
Quando? [When?]
1987
Diameter: 40 cm [16 in]
White-light transmission cylindrical silver halide hologram
Unique
NOTE: The self-contained display includes the clear acrylic cylinder and a rotating metal unit with a bulb. The viewer can read the poem in any direction.
Lilith
1987/89
with Richard Kostelanetz
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 2.
Phoenix
1989
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
Laser transmission silver halide hologram with open flame
Unique
Albeit
1989
40 x 50 cm [16 x 20 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Unique
Shema
1989
40 x 50 cm [16 x 20 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Unique
Omen
1989/90
20 x 25 cm [8 x 10 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 2
Collection Hans Bjelkhagen, Wales, UK
Andromeda Souvenir
1990
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Collection Frédéric Acquaviva, London
Collection Richard Kostelanetz, New York [AP]
Collection Francis Edeline, Tilff, Belgium [AP]
Amalgam
1990
10 X 12.5 cm [4 x 5 in]
White-light reflection silver halide hologram
Edition of 100 for inclusion in Kac's Museum of Holography solo show catalogue, 1990 (unnumbered)
Collections include:
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Jonathan Ross, London
Adhuc
1991
30 x 40 cm [12 x 16 in]
White-light transmission silver halide hologram
Edition of 3
Collection Jonathan Ross, London
Collection Karas, Madrid
Collection Vito Orazem and Söke Dinkla, Essen, Germany