Artists Bio / Curriculum Vitae - Al Razutis
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Collections:Lanzhou City University, Dun-Huang Cultural Center, Lanzhou, China Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Archives, Hollywood, USA Museum of Modern Art (Pompidou), Paris, France National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Massacusetts Institute of Technology holography collection, Canbridge USA National Library of Australia Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center, NYC The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany Vancouver Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique (Film Study Collection), Vancouver Burnaby Art Gallery Westchester Library, NY Vehicule, Montreal, Canada Queen's University Concordia University Simon Fraser University Amherst College Sheridan College California Institute of the Arts Ontario College of Art Chicago Art Institute University of Quebec - Montreal Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain University library of Lausanne, Switzerland University of Provence, France Grants and Awards:Shearwater Foundation, DVD production grant, 2003 Shearwater Foundation, video post-production grant, 1996 Shearwater Foundation, video post-production grant, 1995 The Canada Council, production grant (holography - video), 1995 Shearwater Foundation, video production grant (jointly with Sally Weber), 1994 Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Independent-Experimental Film Achievement Award, 1988 The Canada Council, Holography Grant, 1983 The Canada Council, Holography Grant, 1975 The Canada Council, Video Production Grant, 1974 The Canada Council, Senior Art Grant (Holography), 1973 The Canada Council, Senior Arts Grant (Holography), 1972 Selected Exhibitions:"N Dimensional Space", group film art exhibition, curated by Sidney Gordon, XINEMA, Unit / Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2024 "Gravity wins, Entropy rules", solo holographic art exhibition, curated by Felix Rapp, Unit / Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2024 'Flying Apsaras' (solo holographics exhibition), Lanzhou City University, Dun-Huang Cultural Center, Lanzhou, China, 2014 'Not About Art' (solo film exhibition), Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA, 2014 'Duos éphémères', Musee du Louvre - Auditorium, Paris, France, 2014 '3D Gallery - Holographic Art', Gallery (group show) and Workshop (holograms), National Stereoscopic Association 3-D Con, Conference. Costa Mesa, CA, USA, 2012 'Mixed Messages: Marshall McLuhan and the Moving Image', Conference, screening (film), International House, Philadelphia, USA, 2012 'Deja Vu', group show (holography, stereoscopic 3D), Vancouver, Canada, 2010 'The Infra-structural Image', group show (film), Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada, 2006 Seoul Net and Film Festival (SENEF), Restrospective ( Film - Video - 3D Video), Seoul, Korea, 2004 Ilmin Museum of Art, Installation works (Film, Video, 3D Video), Seoul, Korea, 2004 European Media Arts Festival, Restrospective ( Film - Video - 3D Video - VR), Osnabrueck, Germany, 2002 Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique, 'Experimental 3D Video Art' (solo screening), Vancouver, Canada, 1998 Northwest Film Festival, '3D Video Art' (solo screening), Portland, USA, 1998 Musee du Louvre - Auditorium, 'Le relief au cinema' (solo screening), group exhibit, Paris, France, 1997 Vancouver Electronic Arts Festival, 'Body Electric', group show, Vancouver, Canada, 1997 ASTARTE, 'Mutations', group show, Paris, France, 1994 "Images in Time and Space", touring holography exhibition, Canada and USA, 1987-1993 Simon Fraser University Gallery, 'The Classic Suite and Other Stories', solo exhibition, Vancouver, Canada, 1987 Pacific Cinemathe Pacifique, 'Al Razutis in Person' (solo performance), Vancouver, Canada, 1987 American Museum of the Moving Image, 'Amerika' film screening, New York, USA, 1986 Fringe Gallery, 'Totem', solo exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 1986 Pacific Cinemathe Pacifique, 'Avant-Garde Panel' (solo performance in group panel presentations), Vancouver, Canada, 1986 Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, "Light: Perception-Projection", group show, Montreal, Canada, 1985 Ann Arbor Film Festival, "Visual Essays" (special screening), Ann Arbor, USA, 1985 Boston Film and Video Foundation, solo screening, Boston, USA, 1985 Maison de la Culture, "A Fascination of Holography", group show, Montreal, Canada, 1985 The Science Museum, "Light Dimensions", group show, London, England, 1984 Deutsches Filmmuseum, "Licht-Blicke", group show, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 1984 Canada House, 'Canadian Holography Now', group show, London, England, 1984 Vancouver Art Gallery, "Vancouver Art and Artists", Amerika film premiere, 1983 Royal Photographic Society, 'Light Dimensions', group show, Bath, England, 1983 Museum of Holography, "Light Years", group show, New York, USA, 1981 State University of New York - Buffalo, solo film show, Buffalo, USA, 1982 National Gallery of Canada, 'Canadian Film-Makers', group show, Ottawa, Canada, 1980 Grierson Film Seminar, solo screening, Ontario, Canada, 1980 The Photographers Gallery, "Light Years Ahead", London, England, 1980 Franklin Institute, 'The Holographer's Vision", group show, Philadelphia, USA, 1979 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Retrospective, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1979 Sao Paulo Bienniale, group show, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1978 Burnaby Art Gallery, 'Visual Alchemy' Solo Retrospective Exhibition (holography) - national touring show, 1977-78 National Gallery of Canada, 'Another Dimension', Ottawa, Canada, 1977 Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique, "A Tribute to Al Razutis", 2-part Film Retrospective, Vancouver, Canada, 1977 Art Gallery of Ontario, 'Independent Views', group exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 1977 Evansville Museum of Art, 'Holographic Exposure', Indiana, USA, 1977 Museum of Modern Art of France, 'Canadian Video Art', group show, Paris, France, 1977 Cinema Parallele, solo retrospective, Montreal, Canada, 1976 Art Gallery of Ontario, 'Videoscape' , group show, Toronto, Canada, 1975 Vancouver Art Gallery, 'Personal Film', group show, Vancouver, Canada, 1974 Vancouver Art Gallery, 'Hybrid' (installation, co-authored with Gary Lee-Nova), Vancouver, Canada, 1974 Vancouver Art Gallery, 'Intermedia Film Marathon', group show, Vancouver, Canada, 1968 Selected Writings by Al Razutis:"I. E. / Ilium Express", Sculptural Prose-Poem Novel by Al Razuti, Graphic art by Stefan Razutis, Designed by Lucy Wilkinson, death of workers whilst building skyscrapers (publisher), Editor Lucy Wilkinson, UK, 2024 "Gravity wins, Entropy rules", Exhibition Catalogue book, Edited by Felix Rapp, Unit / Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2024 "Yes" "You" "Can" - Selected Writings by Al Razutis, death of workers whilst building skyscrapers (publisher), Editor Lucy Wilkinson, UK, 2020 "Art and Holography - Part 3", 2020 "Alchemy, visual alchemy and their respective arts", 2020 "Visual Alchemy in Theory and Practice, and as Holographic Art", 2020 "Ten Films or Less that Influenced My Life and Work", 2020 "Razutis Dissects the Holy Mountain by Jodorowsky - Acts 1, 2, 3", 2020 "In the Spotlight: Hooked on Holograms – An Interview with Al Razutis", Area of Design (dot com), Nov.- Dec. 2017 "Visual Essays: Origins of Film + Amerika", Revisita Laika (Carlos Adriano, Ed.) 2016 Alchemist.com, web contents, 2016-1920 "The Strange Voyage of Shrodinger's Cat", Screenplay, 2003 "Doing_Time", in Digital Earth on-line, (T. Schiphorst and O. Hockenhull, ed.), 1998 "Why the Cinema We Don't Need Has Found a Home in Canada", in Lightstruck, Vol 7. No. 1, 1990 "Nothing Personal" in Independent Eye (M. Hoolboom, ed.), 1990 "An Avant-Garde for Holography by Way of Nemesis", in Wavefront Magazine,1986 "Proposition for the Deconstruction of Cine-Structuralism" (films of Peter Rose), in Opsis,1985 "Menage a Trois: Contemporary Film Theory, New Narrative and the Avant-Garde", in Opsis, 1984 "Regina vs.", in Opsis, 1984 "Critical Perspectives on Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1970-1983", co-authored with Tony Reif, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983 "Rediscovering Lost History, Vancouver Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1969", Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983 "David Rimmer: A Critical Analysis", monograph, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1981 "Some Notes on the Art of Holography", in The Holographer's Vision, Franklin Institute Press, 1980 "Ilium: Express", unpublished novel, 1970-78 "The Beast", unpublished prose-poem and screenplay, 1970-78 "Visual Alchemy", in Vanguard, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1974 "Hybrid", co-authored with Gary Lee-Nova, in Artscanada: The Issue of Video Art, Vol. XXX, No. 4, October 1973 Lectures - Academic Papers by Al Razutis:'The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even', International Society for Optical Engineers (S.P.I.E.), SPIE Vol. 747 Practical Holography 1986 'Art and Holography 1', Canadian Holography Conference, 1985 (re-printed in Wavefront) 'Art and Holography 2', Lake Forest Display Holography Conference, 1985 (re-printed in Wavefront) 'Expression and Tranformation in Avant-Garde Cinema', Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture, Film Studies Association of Canada, 1982 Bibliography - On Works by Al Razutis:"Gravity wins, Entropy rules", Exhibition Catalogue book, Edited by Felix Rapp, Unit / Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2024 "Yes" "You", Selected Writings by Al Razutis, Death of workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers Press, Edited by Lucy Wilkinson, U.K., 2020 "Ruling Out Art: Media Art Meets Law in Ontario's Censor Wars", by Taryn Sirove, UBC Press, 2017 "Holograms: A Cultural History", by Sean F. Johnston, Oxford University Press, 2015 "The Moving Image", by Viva Paci, essay, The Moving Image, 2015 "Classification of Holograms and Types of Hologram Used in Holographic Art", by Vildan Isik, paper, International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 "Holography and Art", by Ildan Visik, PhD Thesis, Meliksah University Talas/Kayseri, Turkey 2013 "3-DIY", Chapter 23: 'Al Razutis: A Complete 3D Artist', by Ray Zone, Focal Press, 2012 "Holographic Visions - A History of New Science", by Sean F. Johnston, Oxford University Press, 2006 "Retrospective", exhibition catalog, European Media Arts Festival, 2002 'Film to Video / Video to Film', by Bruce Jenkins (on Razutis' / Bridge at Electrical Storm)
-- Magnetic North Catalog, Walker Art Center, 2000.
"L'Etude
Visuelle. Puissances d'Une Forme Cinematographique (Al Razutis, Ken Jacobs,
Brian De Palma)", Nicole Brenez, Cinematheque Francais, 1996 "Three Decades of Rage",
interview with Mike Hoolboom, in 'Beneath the Pleasure Dome', 1994, Cantrills
Filmnotes, 1992 "Between Agonism and the Autonomy
of Art: The Case of Al Razutis", by William C. Wees, in Cantrills Filmnotes,
"In the Valley of the Fix",
interview with Mike Hoolboom, in bulletIN THE HEAD, Cineworks, 1990 "Amerika and the Destruction
Aesthetic", Eric Fergusson, in Independent Eye, Fall 1990 "En Garde" in Independent
Eye, 1989 "Al Razutis: Under the Sign
of the Beast", interview with David Bryant and Mike Hoolboom, in Independent
Eye,1989 "Visual Essays: Origins of Film",
Peter Chapman, in Independent Eye, 1986 "Myths and myth-makers of Amerika",
John Lekich, in The Globe and Mail, 1984 "Al Razutis / The Funnel",
Seth Feldman, in Vanguard, 1984 "Mary Brown vs. The Peterborough Four, or The Cinema Scopes Trial",
Victor Coleman, in Parallelogramme, 1982 "Visionary Experiments",
George Kohler, in Parachute, 1978 "Pacific Cinematheque",
Tony Reif, in Cantrills Film Notes, 1974 "Self Portrait",
Tony Reif and Kirk Tougas, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1974 |