Stereo/Computational Photography/Holography III

We continue the discussion started with the Stereo/Computational blender of March 27 (Jason Ordaz, Pete Rogina, Tim Thomas) and the Holographic Blender of June 25 (Fred Unterseher, Rebecca Deem, August Muth).

Stereographer and Book Artist Georgette Freeman will present her stereo camera and viewing rigs, her stereo card designs, digital stereo imagery, and talk about her experiences as a stereographer and artist.

Fred Unterseher and Rebecca Deem will present new work with colleagues on the development of Digital Holography. The Holography exhibit by Fred, Rebecca and August remains up through July 14th.

Stereographer and Computational Photography enthusiast Pete Rogina of WorldScape Inc. will attend virtually via (stereo?) Webcam.

Los Alamos Visual Analytics (LAVA) is sponsoring and facilitating this series and will be presenting some of the materials on their 3D DLP system at the Complex. LAVA is developing systems for immersive capture and display of objects and scenery with WorldScape and others.

Georgette Freeman: Vaporlock and high gas prices couldn’t stop photographer and book artist Georgette Freeman as she crossed and recrossed the continent this year, in yet another quest for “[q]uestions never dreamed of at home . . . and the answers, well, the answers are, literally out of this world.” Fortunately for Santa Feans, the San Franciso-based Freeman’s 2008 wanderlust found pause in our neighborhood and she’s agreed to continue May’s discussion of stereo and computational photography

Pinning Freeman to a single genre is as difficult as stopping her yellow van, Nomad. A Securities Exchange Commission escape–“I allowed myself to become a minor government official,” she says, “because I couldn’t afford to support my photographic interests otherwise”–she found greater meaning in book design, stereo photography and journaling. A photographer since the late ’60s, she began making stereo cards in the 1990s and will discuss her work on Wednesday evening.

Other stereo photographers will be encouraged to present their work. Discussion of starting a local Stereographic User Group will be started.