
to continue is works in film - video - and now holography with custom built equipment, a film optical printer, video synthesizer, a holographic lab with holographic tables and custom built lasers. Shortly later, after Intermedia closed, in 1972 Vancouver Razutis built his studio Visual Alchemy Inc. It was a formative experience for us expatriate and local artists. The 'Intermedia' (artist's co-op) of the late 60's in Vancouver was one such place that encouraged and developed cross-disciplinary experimental art forms, and pushed for creating new tools, to explore or create new medias. 'Visual Alchemy in Theory and Practice, and as Holographic Art'įurther lessons in the alchemies of projection: 'Projecting - Alchemy' It All Begins with Intermedia and a studio 'cave' painted black Within 'underground cinemas' and 'art happenings', 'rock performances,' there was not only image and sound but perfomance art, multi-media works, poetry, dance and early video.Ģ020 illustrated essay on Alchemy and Visual Alchemy: Their passive audiences were accustomed to a 'near Platonic Cave experience' with psychedellic and suggested surrealities. Within this facility I created my art, business, held workshops and invited other artists to creat work on a cooperative basis.Įra where film and video exhibition - gallery - projection theaters and No kitchen no showers, but equipment everywhere.

Studio, a multi-room black-walled facility offering little in terms of livingĪmenities, but with media and experimental devices in abundance, was my Vancouver studio (from 1973) and my sleeping loft from 1974 to 1977. Image projection, holographic image projection.) by Al Razutis (2005, 2010, edits cont.) (Film-video imaging-projection, 3D stereoscopic
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