MARTINA MRONGOVIUS

Martina Mrongovius works with optics and holography to create installations of spatially dynamic imagery. Her current masters research (by project) explores how holographic images can be used to express the shape of relationships in imagined and perceived scenes.

As well as working in the RMIT holography lab Martina creates holograms with The Center for Holographic Arts (New York) and The Academy of Media Arts (Cologne).

Martina has an honours degree in Applied Physics (majoring in holographic image projection)and teaches a variety of physics at RMIT. As well as her academic research Martina collaborates on projects within the arts.

Holographic installations

PaterNoster and CityBridge in ‘Ex tempore’ at the Stairwell Gallery, Melbourne November/December 2006

Pascua Lama in ‘TRANS VERSA’ at the Museo de Arte Cotempoaneo, Santiago, Chile, October/November 2006

into the holographic landscape – solo show of reconstructed urban landscapes at Center for the Holographic Arts, New York, September 2006

Memory Space digitally constructed hologram in 21^st Century Holography exhibition, Bodelwyddan Castle, North Wales, 11 July -17 September 2006

Unfurl two subtly animated life-size holograms in Experimenta’s 2005 Vanishing Point exhibition and in 2006 at Diatribe Gallery, Melbourne

Hover… installation of holographic projections and mechanical sculptures to animate dragonflies, presented as part of the 2004 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne

Publications

Spatial dynamics within reconstructed holographic images paper in ‘Advances in Display Holography - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Display Holography’, River Valley Press, 2006. pg 170-6

The Wave Collapses - multi-layered comic book adventure game for the 2006 Next Wave Festival (with Alice Mrongovius), published by BanditFox www.banditfox.com 2006 ISBN 09 585681 4 6  

Hover…holographic projection paper in Practical Holography XIX: Materials and Applications, edited by Tung H. Jeong and Hans I. Bjelkhagen, Proceedings of SPIE Vol5742, 2005 pg 61-70

Hover Habitat - Issue 2, 2004; Trace – Issue 3, 2004 and Playa – Issue 8, 2005: articles in Stimulus Respond www.stimulusrespond.com

Singularity - graphic novel of quantum physics vs. the convenience store (with Alice Mrongovius), published by www.banditfox.com 2002 ISBN 09 9585681 2 X