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david warren

Once upon a time I studied photography and cinematography and someone gave me a Fine Arts degree for my efforts. This was followed by study and practical research into holography for which another stranger gave me a Masters degree in Visual Arts. This episode of strangers handing me documents concluded when I received a Diploma in Teaching Art. Time passed. Always creative, always inquisitive, always getting older.  My creative diversions expanded and now includes writing, photography, cinematography, painting, music and my major combat zone of holography that recently produced 'Hololujah', a one kilometre hologram.

Then from somewhere in Australia I relocated to somewhere in France. All my baggage came with me.

Painting has always been a 'down time' activity for me. It provides enough difficulties and challenges to keep me interested while offering  chances to brood over problems and ideas of the other eclectic diversions. These might range from experimenting with alternative ways to hang out the washing to delving deeper into the notion of 'what is colour?' other than a range of wavelengths. Pursuing the impressionistic painting style gives me opportunities to think about this question; not to necessarily find an answer, but to enjoy the journey of contemplation. The act of making paintings brings with it a long procession of decision making that is more rewarding than the end game question of 'Is it a good painting?" In this context what does the term 'good' define? I'll tell you. A painting with a history, a journey, a sense of adventure. As I see it, a bus terminal is, in itself, not a journey. 

Painting
About Me
cow2.jpg

Vache Distrait, 100x100cm, 2022

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HPPorte d'eorte d'entréeeading 1

Porte d'entree, 40x30cm, 2022

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Pont du Cajarc, 100x100cm, 2022,  
              private collection

SOLD

the red tractor.jpg

Tracteur Rouge, 100x100cm, 2022

pink tree.jpg

Peupliers 1, 120x50cm, 2022

tree self potrait.jpg

Chene, 120x50cm, 2022

red trees.jpg

Peupliers 2, 120x50cm, 2022

poplar forest.jpg

Peupliers 3, 120x50cm, 2022

Poplars by the road.jpg

Peupliers au bord de la route, 120x40cm, 2022

Faycelles.jpg

Faycelles, 42x32cm, 2022

poplar trees.jpg

Peupliers, 60x50cm, 2022 

oak France.jpg
Thiviers oak tree, France
private collection
lake France.jpg
Firbeix lake, France
private collection
Dog at the Crossroads in the Lot Valley.jpg
Dog at the Crossroads in the Lot Valley, France
Lot River.jpg
Lot River bank, France
ACROSS TIME.jpg
The Carillon, Australia
private collection
Thiviers France.jpg
In front of the gite, France
forest-2.jpg
Kuitpo Forest, Australia
The Barn.jpg
The barn, France
Dordogne 2.jpg
Beyond the gate, France
Coastal.jpg
Encounter Bay, Australia
outside St Petersberg.jpg

St Petersburg, Russia
private collection

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Notre Dame.jpg
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Toledo, Spain
private collection

Notre Dame, France

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Prof. Paul Davies, astrophysicist, author
Oil paint and holographic foil on board

private collection

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Glen and Sue, musicians and music teachers
Oil paint on canvas, 1x1.5 metres
private collection

The Lot River copy.jpg

Lot River, France

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Lot Valley looking south, France
private collection

Holography has been in my life for about 40 years and still it is almost unheard of to see a hologram on display in homes. Galleries promoting this medium most often have a shelf life shorter than a loaf of bread. Fortunately the demise of holography, as art, affects me about as often as a bout of ebola. My personal addiction to this medium are the visual characteristics that lend themselves to promoting art ideas that I believe, might not be as well communicated with other mediums. Of these I am talking particularly of the 3D effects, the positive and negative imagery and the potential to show full imagery while illuminating but a fraction of the recorded hologram and its objects/scene.

With a choice of mediums at my disposal (photography, music, painting, writing, etc) that decision will, utlimately, be determined by the relevant question asked by others while discussing my work..."Why did you use holography to bring your idea to fruition?" I will always be in a position to confidently answer that and  will relate to those uniques visual characteristics and might include pointing out visual experiences of the holographic piece that might not be as familiar or obvious to the questioner.

Holography

'IT is RT'

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Moscow, Russia, 2007
white light reflection hologram 30x40cm

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'Hololujah'

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Adelaide, Australia, 2012
white light transmission hologram
1 kilometre x 35mm

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YouTube: Presentation at MIT, Boston

'I Dreamt We Had Something To Say'

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New York, USA, 2007
laser transmission hologram
9 metres x 35cm

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Camera built to expose 30 holographic portraits on film using a ruby pulse laser

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'Models & Martyrs'

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Adelaide, Australia, 1984
laser transmission hologram
1 x 1.5 metres

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Adelaide University, laser lab, mechanical engineering department

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mannequin models arranged
on vibration proof table prior
to exposure of laser light to hologram glass plate

'White Money, Black Money'

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Moscow, Russia, 2007
white light reflection holograms
double exposure
each 30x40cm 

We nd 2 tlk

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The Gamer

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YouTube from previous website:
zipsisterholography.com (defunct)

Vermont, USA, 2011
white light transmission holograms
each 1x1metre

Story Title

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'Hyundai Sapien...

my car is my skin

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Seoul, South Korea, 1999
white light reflection
20x5cm

'Father and Son'

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London, UK 1986
Royal College of Art, holography lab
laser and white light transmission
twelve 50x25cm

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'36 Views of the Holographic Self'

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Inspired by Hokusai's print series, 36 Views of Mt Fuji. In his prints the shape of Mt Fuji was echoed by other objects in his prints.
In my artwork, a large self portrait hologram containing thousands of different views was cut up into smaller holograms containing less views but still displaying the full image. These smaller holograms were placed in envelopes and scattered around Tokyo. 

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Tokyo, Japan 1996
36 envelopes each with a hologram 1x5cm

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'Uncertainty Principle'

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Easter Island, Chile 1994
white light reflection holograms
20x30cm

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Small Title

'Inside the Square'

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Madrid, Spain 2004
white light reflection 
20x20cm

Small Title

'Depth'

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Leysin, Switzerland, 2005
white light transmission
20x20cm

'St. Valentine's Day Gambit'

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While in Havana on St. Valentine's Day, 2002, I produced a holograpahic artwork about a virtual game between the Cuban chess champion Jose Capablanca, represented by a generic portrait hologram, and others also interred at the cemetary.

Havana Cemetary, Cuba,  14 Feb, 2002
white light reflection
20x30cm

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'checkmate'

'Dr David Warren'

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Canberra, Australia 2008
full colour reflection hologram
25x18cm

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Dr-W-video-2

Play Video

Australian inventor of the black box flight recorder

'Nice Man'

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nice man. wmv.mp4

Play Video

Canberra, Australia, 2009
full colour reflection hologram
25x18cm

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The theme of this work relates to the common and disturbing prevelance of online predators; those appearing as nice men and preying on innocent
girls (lambs)

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Music has always been there to support my down time, up time and any other time, often massaging the other eclectic diversions. I grew up in the era of the beginnings of synthesizers, drum  machines and multi track cassette recorders. It was during this time, while producing some holograms for the government as a guest artist at the physics department of Australia's National University, that I also had the opportunity to use an early CMI Fairlight (invented in Australia) which comprised of a full size keyboard, computer and microphone that could record and store sounds as a sampler and played across the keys. At that time, these were beyond the price range of mere mortals below the likes of Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder. Mine was at the Canberra School of Electronic Music. Effective but primative by todays standards it nonetheless gave me the chance to immerse myself in experimenting and improvising with the ultimate sonic generator. As I had no formal music training I was the kid in the candy store. Improvised playing was a natural approach. Today I am prepared to leave musical mistakes. Perfection is the rule celebrated by those who often have little else to give. And while my music may, at times seem structured, many recordings include numerous one takes, be it piano, guitar, or any of the vast number of synth tones, responding to the previous recorded layers and seeing what my fingers choose to play. Maximum 5 tracks per offering regardless of total times.

Music
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Remember When
00:00 / 05:55
An Acre of Sky
00:00 / 09:28
You're Blocking My View
00:00 / 03:00
Throwing Stones at the Clouds
00:00 / 05:16
Slow Descent
00:00 / 06:49
Do Dogs Blink?
00:00 / 09:37
Slow Burn
00:00 / 02:57
The Alchemist and the Unicorn
00:00 / 06:30
Catch the Cat
00:00 / 03:33
When a Stranger Approaches
00:00 / 06:10
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From a Whisper
00:00 / 18:46
Letting Go
00:00 / 09:59
Rouge et Bleu
00:00 / 03:43
Zumanity
00:00 / 06:11
Swarming
00:00 / 14:07
Waiting for You
00:00 / 17:05
Loving You
00:00 / 06:25
Watching You
00:00 / 21:23
Listening to You
00:00 / 05:08
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Self Portrait, iPad, 20x15cm

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 Self Portrait, Acrylic on Holographic Foil on board,             150x100cm

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