Stereoscopic 3D & VR at Visual Alchemy
3D Video Art - Holographic Stereograms - Legacy VR - 3D Projects - Writings & Interviews
'3D video' refers to all forms of stereoscopic 3D motion picture expressions, including interactive '3D VR'. And it is for the reasons of celebrating those forms of art which employ 'stereopsis' (the brain's abilities to fuse a stereo pair into a 'three dimensional image' created only on the horizontal axis of parallax revealing shots) that this topic is dedicated. Stereoscopic 3D is not 'holography', never was, never will be, no matter what some con-artists will claim from their clubs or their roost. But it is a close cousin to holography in the sense that this art informs how we humans see things spatially and the arts that we can create from it. And in so doing it is as fertile ground as any where to conduct our 'media arts', and why we shouldn't wait.
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS TITLES - SAMPLE LINKS
'Galiano Suite' in 2D / 3D - on You Tube
Galiano Suite 2 - 'Rhythms' - Al Razutis 2D/3D 2019 14 min.
"What started as a stereoscopic 3D film became a puzzle with riddles.
Like how to see 'something' that can't be seen
with a stereo pair being paired and paired
for the mind's stereopsis
which only thinks in simple two-channel binaries.
'Galiano Suite', a place of such marvels."
Galiano Suite 1 - 'Intro' - Al Razutis 2D (from 3D) 2019 4 min. XAR3D CHANNEL - YouTube 3D video art by Razutis
'Galiano Shorebreak' in Anaglyph 3D
'Galiano Shorebreak' - 5 min. version anaglyph 3D video by Al Razutis 2019
Anaglyph 3D glasses (red-cyan) required to view properly in 3D - released on YOUTUBE.
'Galiano Shorebreak' - 11 min. version anaglyph 3D video
'Galiano Shorebreak' is a silent film poem shot in native 3D on Galiano Island, British Columbia, a dance with eroded stone works shoreline whose movements are mapped as the camera is free to move as a wave upon the surface of shore.
This version is rendered in red-cyan anaglyph stereo 3D to match the stone colour surfaces and to fix the 3D as colour 'relief'. This work comes in two durations: 5 minutes and 11 minutes, which represent venue-oriented durations (from smartphone to gallery installation) and contain different expanded endings.
For more 2D / 3D EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 2019 & earlier see Burning Man 2015.
'Ensalada Deja Vu' in Anaglyph 3D
'Ensalada Deja Vu'' - 6 min. version 'para llevar' anaglyph 3D video by Al Razutis 2019
Anaglyph 3D glasses (red-cyan) required to view properly in 3D
'Ensalada Deja Vu' comes in several sizes, call it 'prepared to order': as "para llevar" (take out) 6 min. and "para aqui" (stay for dining) 20 minutes, and available in 1080p.
Para aqui is 19 minutes, for installation, projection on a wall, perhaps facing "Galiano Shorebreak" (which is silent) with expanded content and different ending from 6 min. version.
This 'fly on the wall view' perspective is combined with 'tossed salad' editing style with VFX, step-printing, ghosting, as image and time is mixed into ensalada and rendered as red-cyan anaglyph 3D video for viewing with anaglyph 3D glasses or in '2D' with color offset double images. It documents opening night at our 2010 exhibition of holographic art, stereo 3D art - history, lenticular art, and 3D video and film presentations - the exhibition title was "Deja Vu". Some of the opening night attendees become 'characters' in this video through no other design except chance, or what Lautremont wrote and the Surrealists embraced: "As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table."
The video has no narration. Video subjects are the people, the art is backgrounded. The people are not lit in with 'proper cinematographic etiquette'. Camera sits like a fly on the wall. It gets noisy. A audio visual salad.
View 3D web-graphics with anaglyph (red-cyan or blue) 3D glasses 
for correct spatial representation.
Burning Man 2015 in Stereoscopic 3D and mono by Al Razutis
Short subject films from this project in 3D on YOUTUBE
Chain of Events - Burning Man 2015 - 5 min.
2019 film by Al Razutis to be viewed in 3D, or viewed in 2D. Looped or not.
Two shots form a loop. 2015 Burning Man Camp Gallavant night.
Four loops form a chain.
Back and forth form a panorama.
Put player on loop and the chain is open ended.
No titles, no clutter.
View in 2D side-by side 1/2 wide stereo sxs images or view in 3D sxs or anaglyph full width.
At your discretion.
The Playa at Night a voyeur's delight (Anaglyph 3D) - 3 min. 2018
This meditation on Burning Man 2015 night scenes features dissolving freeze-frames of 3D / 2D 'smeared' moments and is set to slowed down music by Gary Miles.
Can be viewed in 2D and / or 3D - the anaglyph version represents a state of incompleteness in stereo 3D, which then becomes suggestive as to what is missing.
Use anaglyph 3D (red / cyan) glasses to view in 3D.
The Playa in White (in sand wind and light) - Al Razutis 3 min. 2018
3 min. excerpt from Scenes from Burning Man 2015 by Al Razutis (XAR3D), focused on the 'playa sirens and shapes coming to life' in sand storms and changing light.
Music from Gary Miles composition slowed down by AR.
2D standard version. 720p
Night Scenes Burning Man 2018 - 5 min.
Interpretive documentary, experimental video by Al Razutis, with music by Gary Miles.
Various sections depict camp Galavant art tour, the playa at night and burn (light walkers and burn baby burn...) - 5 min. version.
2018 film by Al Razutis (XAR) in standard 2D is an excerpt from larger project of films interpreting Burning Man 2015 with individual films in 2D and 3D released separately.
To see where stereoscopic 3D forms cross over into holography, where they are found in 'hybrid' forms (a hybrid with holographics) see our McCormack collection of multiplex holograms and read about the inventions that brought these forms together, who created them and how they look on video, including 3D video on the You Tube
RECENT WORKS & COLLABORATIONS
'Pearls Before Swine' (2023) by Al Razutis & Richard Martin
A 100 second visit by filmmaker / director / historian and curator Richard Martin to Razutis Visual Alchemy where he documents and Razutis re-edits his recordings of the multiplex (integral) 'first holographic movies' by Lloyd Cross, Sharon McCormack and friends.
With comment about the eastern and NY Centric holo scene version of history included in Razutis comments.
Video link You Tube
https://youtu.be/-rIlJG4v_e0
2022 - 2021 - A NEW 'VISUAL ESSAYS' SERIES
3D Documentary - Interpetive project drawing on film recorded by Al Razutis and Guillaume Vallée
A documentary & interpretive project on west-coast holographic art, to feature the collections and archives at Visual Alchemy, Saturna Island BC studio has been initiated by Al Razutis and Guillaume Vallee in various audio and video recording sessions in 2021 and 2022.
Some examples from these sessions are represented in a new series of 'Visual Essays' by Al Razutis (editing), including material by Guillaume Vallee, which are posted on YOU TUBE here:
- 'A hologram of Field' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallee -- 'Visual Essay #5' -- Fields, particles, holography and Quantum Field theory -- 9 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'Another World ' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallee -- 'Visual Essay #4' -- Space, spacetime, and another world of MC Escher -- 7 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'The Wall of Upatnieks' -- Al Razutis with Guillaume Vallee -- 2021 -- 'Visual Essay #3' -- Section 1 & 2 'Our first hologram' narrated by Juris Upatnieks & 'Revisiting the site' sand tables -- 9 min. video on YOU TUBE
- 'The temple of impossible' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallee -- 'Visual Essay #2' -- multiplex holography galleries of ghosts -- 9 min. silent video on YOU TUBE
- 'Let Brother Al Tell It' -- Al Razutis - 2021 with Guillaume Vallee -- 'Visual Essay #1' -- re-discovery of first multiplex hologram -- 2 min. video on YOU TUBE
>> XAR3D CHANNEL -- Razutis 3D and holography on YT
Dali, surrealism and 3D
"To examine the relationship between stereoscopic paintings and holography by a master like Salvador Dali and his prior paintings, is to see what is possible when art asks '3D or not 3D? Dalinian stereo and holographic space', a topic which is explored in my (A.R.) 2021 essay."
In Memoriam: Fred Unterseher (1946-2021)
Fred Unterseher (1946-2021) presents his holographic works
3 min. excerpt on YouTube anaglyph 3D ----- 2 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D:
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Fred Unterseher gives two short performance lectures from DVD contents
3 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D ----- 2 min. excerpt on YouTube standard 2D:
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3D experimental film releases by Razutis - on YouTube:
Page with images / texts:
"Burning Man 2015" frames from videos in 3D
with HTML 5 Stereo 3D Player
3D content is displayed here in analog red-cyan stereo 3D for ease of universal viewing.
Stereo 3D can be projected, viewed on 3D tv, web viewed with html 5 players, viewed in 3D VR. The possibilities are endless.
Visit us also on FaceBook Al Razutis - Visual Alchemy for more trips into 3D and VR
Trip down memory lane: VR & Avatar Worlds - 1996-2015
Films and 3D video by Al Razutis on You Tube - extracts and full length shorts
XALRAZUTIS channel - avant garde
XAR3D channel - stereo 3D & holo
2022 - 2020 Essays on 3D Media and Art by Al Razutis
'Holo Vanities' -- 'West Coast Artists in Light'
'3D or Not 3D? Dalinian Stereo and Holographic Space'
More writings by / about Razutis and 3D
Guillaume Vallee -- 2020 Residency in 3D Film at Visual Alchemy
An October 2020 residency by Quebec experimental filmmaker and video artist Guillaume Vallee resulted in a number of shoots and 3D - 2D video experiments that pushed the boundaries of what is stereo 3D. One remarkable discovery by Guillaume was the creation of 3D video that would look one way and very different when viewed in 3D versus 2D to deliver uniquely different content. As he stated to AR "it was that in-between state that I am after". More information and visuals coming soon.
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Our Focus is Stereoscopic 3D Film Art
3D Film - Video Art filmed in Native 3D as experimental films by Al Razutis
From analog to digital, from performance to 3D VR to further experimental
it could be called 'legacy' except that it was ahead of its times
Award-Winning 3D tapes, poetic avant-garde subjects, internationally shown, with selections screened at the Louvre - Paris 1997, and the European Media Arts Festival 2002 Germany, and at the SENEF 2004 festival in Seoul, Korea. 3D Video Art by Razutis first premiered in North America in 1998 screenings in Vancouver, Canada and Portland, USA - see 1998 Premiere Presentations
Bringing stereoscopic 3D together with holography 2012 NSA Conference & Exhibition
3 min. selections from 'VIRTUAL FLESH' in ANAGLYPH 3D on YOUTUBE:
3D VIDEOS in anaglylph 3D formats of true holographics on YOU TUBE - XAR3D CHANNEL
NEW 2019 - Vol. 4 Holographics - China 2014 - Sharon McCormack Collection - Anait Stephens
'Multiplex' 3D Motion Pictures - No Glasses 3D holographic cinema
Stereo 3D & Holographic Cinema - McCormack Collection & Archives
holographic arts and archives of Sharon McCormack and 'Multiplex' holograms are preserved at Visual Alchemy Studio on Saturna Island, BC Canada
"Al Razutis exclusively represents the arts archives of holographic artist Sharon McCormack and her archives of Multiplex Company and San Francisco School of Holography as Curator and Trustee and Preservationist for posterity"
This Collection and Archive is stored and preserved at Visual Alchemy Studio, Saturna, Canada. Viewing by appointment only.
The collection and archives includes original Multiplex Holographic Stereograms in wide 120 and 180 and 360 degree views featuring motion-picture subjects. These holographic stereograms are viewed without any glasses, they are 'autostereoscopic' displays.
Oldies but goodies: Expanded Cinema & Holography 1970's
West-Coast Artists in Light - continuing documentary
4-Part Documentary on Holographic Arts in Stereo 3D Video is continuing!
Al Razutis' documentary film project West-Coast Artists in Light has been conducted over several decades of filming. Beginning in standard film 2D early 1990's the project moved to stereoscopoic 3D film in the late 1990's, one that highlighted the 'spatial characteristics' of holographic art and artists working in their laboratories. The resultant 4-part film is available by special arrangement for public screenings. It now continues with new material recorded with digital HD 3D for presentation in various formats. Short clips and extracts are available for viewing in anaglyph 3D on Vimeo or YouTube XAR3D channel.
Prose and poetry in VR - Readings on Video
'Place of the First Time' and 'Quasimodo's Poem' in VRML 2.0 with readings by the author.
by Al Razutis 1999 2 min. 2020 Reading on YouTube: 
Appearing in the new book "YES" "YOU" "CAN" |
by Al Razutis 1996 1 min. 30 sec on YouTube: 
Web page on this work Quasimodo's Poem VRML 2.0 |
Legacy Virtual Worls - VRML 2.0/97
UROBOROS and related worlds in Virtual Reality Markup Language - by Al Razutis
These 3D Worlds were built in VRML CG 'virtual space' in natural (orthoscopic) 3D, feature video maps of touch sensitive objects and facades with music. Coded with love of adventure in virtual space.
Poetic avant-garde subjects, internationally shown, with selections at
the Paris 1997, and the European Media Arts Festival 2002 Germany.
VRML WORLDS UROBOROS by Razutis first premiered in North America in 1999 Vancouver, Canada at 'The Body Electric' exhibition.
Critical Writings on 3D Video Art
Al Razutis - Biographical Info.
About
Al Razutis is a multimedia artist, educator and innovator in motion-picture film and video, holographic art and technologies, stereoscopic 3D video art, and web-digital graphics for websites and interactive 3D virtual reality.