Under 2 years old children try to grasp out the coming image with their hands. Small children get inspired by the holographic dimension.The following words of a 4 years old girl pronounced after leaving an holographic exhibition reflect most of the children feelings : "I was not in Braunschweig, I was in another world!"
Closing down performance of the exhibition "Photon", 2007 Landesmuseum Braunschweig: Philiber descibed his idea for the holographic performance.
Standard exhibitions worked quite well on all ages, but teaching holography into primary schools we had to change the concept. We made a climbing installation. The children have been able to experience holograms going up and down in harmony with the pictures. Weeks later, they were explaining friends the holographic techniques, without having received deep teaching.
School time
Another experiment with 400 children, age 9 to 13 years, took part to a project, including a training about how to look at holograms, as well as a practical workshop. We divided the classes into two groups, one starting with the holographic art exhibition and training in the reading of the time-space continuum visual, the other one starting with technical background. The children who went first through the artistic part were more concentrated on the technical instruction than the other group. All children were open to the holograms, an experience that the teacher could re-use later in geometry, art, and physics. Two weeks later a survey filled by the children shows how the children experienced this ";media of life".
In cooperation with teachers of physics for A level (Abitur), children learned how to make holograms. The result was quite surprising for the teacher, because the knowledge about optic improved a lot. One of the children did later his own experiments on the Braunschweig Physics Institute (PTB) for his A-level.
Children from the 4th class till A level enjoying to learn if they feel it gives them somethink in return.
3D industry is now proposing a chain of 3D imaging techniques which challenge our eyes and imagination. Used to work in 2Dimensions since more than 2000 years the whole concept of the multidimensionality made available in an easy way by new technical process remains partially used. A proper education in thinking and communicating in 3 and 4D is necessary. artBridge has a long experience of educational programs.
We organised several lectures, exhibits and trainings. The art expression is a very inspiring medium for students and multimedia designers, but still complex to use as a comprehensive communication tool. The very first artBridge exchange done in 1990, and organised by Dietmar Öhlmann lead to a holographic unit in the HBK. Today, the training is more about applications and integration of media into a new growing holographic industry.
EU exhibition "Facination of Light, Bruxel 2007
" Holography needs more Education" "A declaration based on statistic and market analyse done by Ian Lancaster, General Secretary of International Hologram Manufacturer Association, www.IHMA.org. To produce good hologram, we need to have good design, which means that we need good training, good understanding of the technique and aesthetic. If we look at the assembly here, we find only 4 people underneath of 30 years old. So where is the new generation? Where are the training courses? According to me, there is not enough people in Holography to prepare the next generation, and if we do not do anything, we stagnate, and stagnation means regression. There is no data of people able to work with holography, we need to work on data, and find out where are the people who can do something, and what can they do?" continue next page
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