Venue: San Francisco Hotel.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA.
Date: July 18, 1984
Catalog: No.
Type: Holography and laser projections.
Laser Affiliates produced a Light Sound Motion performance event for the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund (now S.F. Grants for the Arts) July 18, 1984, the last day of the Democratic National Convention in the City. Laser Affiliates with Nancy Gorglione, Greg Cherry, and Steve Anderson, had several laser scan systems projecting argon greens and blues through multiple transparent screens. This created moving three dimensional images in space. Early computer graphics were manipulated in the dark room to create the moving three dimensional scanning. Laser Affiliates was joined by Pat Bischoff from Laser Rays Art Production who scanned the fog banks about the classical dome of City Hall. We had a laser illuminated fog fountain along the shallow reflecting pools of our downtown city site. Hence Gorglione's name, "Steam Dreams," but perhaps she was referring to the rhetoric of ever hopeful politicians. Fog Screens and and three dimensional transparent screens and holograms worked together to position the moving laser scan imagery into apparent three dimensional form in space.
As part of the scenery, a twelve foot hologram sculpture, (glass, steel and aluminum, fabricated by Greg Cherry) was composed of hybrid transmission holograms by Nancy Gorglione. As part of their job, these holograms acted as holographic screens for the occasional scanning laser beam. Sixteen 8" by 10" Hybrid Transmission Holograms evoked Gorglione's title, Sunrise/Sunset, with specific imagery projecting rainbows into the performance space.
Dance by Devi Baptiste, draped in chemical light raiment, and music by the Inside-Out Orchestra, including Andrew Hill, Frank Tusa, Don Weed, Steve Heckman, Fred Zabin, and Eddie Moore. A Senator's wife came up to Gorglione and said, "Who paid for this, it's fabulous! Beautiful!" And Gorglione smiled to say, "You did!" With small grants from the NEA Expansion Arts (Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop) and the Zellerbach Family Fund) and a lot of sweat equity from Laser Affiliates and Cherry Optical Holography. Lasers were loaned for this event from Spectra-Physics, Inc. & Coherent, Inc.
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