Martina Mrongovius

Holographic designer who creates artworks and experiences where
narrative is entangled, and space becomes dynamic.

Producer of collaborative projects that span emergent technologies, curatorial practice, community building and public art.

Emergent Communities, how can experience design shape culture?  panel discussion developed for REMIX summit, Sydney, Australia 2024

Shaping and Weaving the Lake Arts Precinct, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2024

AI as a Collaborator, Lake Mac GLAM, Lake Macquarie, Australia, 2024

Transformation from a Regional Art Gallery to an Arts Precinct, Creative Spaces Summit, Adelaide, 2023

The History of the Future of Holographic Art, Museum of Interesting Things, New York, 2019

Holographic Media, lecture and workshop, Eyebeam, New York, 2019

International Symposium on Display Holography:

Public Engagement with Holograms, International Symposium on Display Holography, University Aveiro, Portugal, 2018

Holographic Perspective, IMTO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2015

Moving through a multiplex holographic scene, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2012

Windows to Worlds, Most Epic Week in VR History, Rahway, NJ, 2017

3D-Symposium BEYOND, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany:
Exploring Parallax on Governors Island, 2014
Imaging Dimensions with Multiplex and Digital Holography, 2012

Holographic Collaborations, Royal Photographic Society, London, 2014

Holographic Windows, Master of Film lecture, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, 2013

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Holographic Messages / MIRCOgram / Breakthrough Starshot / Golden Holograms  with scientists from NASA, Savannah River National Laboratory and City University of New York. This collaborative research proposed methods for creating ultra-light large-aperture holographic reflectors for spacecraft antennas that could increase science data return and on a different scale,  holographic beam steering methods for laser propelled micro-craft.  A tangential project involved creating holograms with artist C Bangs and the Space Systems Design Studio at Cornell Tech for the 1U Alpha CubeSat. These projects included questioning what information could and should be included on deep space probes.
Primary author: Holographic Structures for Interstellar Exploration, International Symposium on Display Holography, Seoul, South Korea, 2023. Co-author: Design of the Alpha CubeSat: Deploying a ChipSat-Equipped Retroreflective Light Sail, American Institute of Aeronautics And Astronautics SciTech, 2021
Draw Within Water with Sky Rolnick, echo3D, Keith Patchel and multiple artists.  Development of an augmented reality installation that enabled collaborative drawing within a headset experience accompanied by take-home mobile augmented stickers. The project contributed to research on virtual tools for creative engagement. Launched at HoloCenter on Governors Island, New York, September 2019 and published through Medium.
Wholeness and the Implicit Order, mentor and technical artist for Julia deVille producing three series of holograms for the Linden New Art exhibition in Melbourne, 2018.
Institutional Memory: 35mm Slides from the Met’s Collection Reimagined, invited artists for a collaborative project between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Materials for the Arts.  I created an installation of montaged slides for the exhibition at the Materials for the Arts (March-June, 2017) and designed the workshop ‘Art Slide Remix’ for Teens Take the Met.
L’Enfer production of a series of digital holograms from the original footage of Henri-Georges Clouzot's uncompleted film.  A collaboration with Richard Castelli, commissioned by Epidemic. Exhibitions include: VISIONS, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, 2017 and  DIMENSIONS! Digital Art since 1859, Pittlerwerke Leipzig, Germany,  2023
Ocean of Blood with the Swimming Cities collective, I joined the art raft journey down the Ganges river to enable multiple camera documentation in 2011.
Holoscape with Nick Normal, an image collection project that linked 2009 Conflux Festival activities into a diorama of social media images. Visitors could participate in animating the diorama which was captured as a stop-motion recording and printed as three panel hologram. The hologram was exhibited at Conflux Festival HQ, New York in 2010.
StructureWool with Briony Barr, a generative fence weaving along the Laurel Hill playing courts using a seed game to then grow patterns for ‘Down the Street around the Corner’ – a joint project by Flux Factory and Queens Blackout Division, New York, September 2006.
the wave collapses with Alice Mrongovius, a comic book adventure game based on quantum physics and interwoven urban narratives. Played over three weeks in 2006 to connect Next Wave Festival sites across Melbourne as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Program. Participants followed clues to collect stickers and complete/collapse the multiple-choice narrative.  
Pascua Lama installation in collaboration with Ash Keating to bring attention to water  pollution from the South American Pascua Lama gold mine for TRANS VERSA at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, September – November 2006
Unfurl, 2004/2005 with Sruli Recht and support from ENESS, Ged Wright and Mark Ruff. Two life-size holograms were created using a 120-degree camera array and digitally generated backgrounds. Commissioned by Experimenta for VANISHING POINT, Melbourne, 2005. Also exhibited in Sydney, Berlin, Cologne and New York.

Catching Light Waves essay for the artist book 'Artefakt and Phantasma' by Tina Kohlmann. Published by Chemical Press, Germany, 2019
Guest editor of Design, Manufacture, and Analysis of Photonic Materials for Historical and Modern Visual Arts, Optical Materials Express, The Optical Society, 2019
Traversing Perspective, the spatial aesthetics of visual attention and movement, presented at  TRANSPARENCIES/ TRANSAPPEARING, R3 Gallery, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in collaboration with Centre de Recherches en Arts et Esthétique, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Published by Archée – arts médiatiques & cyberculture, 2018 and  Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks,  2023
Visual Design of Holographic Elements, book chapter for ‘Keesing Study of Forgeries’, Keesing Technologies, 2017
Questioning Systems of Perception essay for ‘Uncertain Worlds’ catalogue, featuring the exhibition at the HoloCenter Clock Tower gallery by Philippe Boissonnet. Catalogue published by Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2016
The Craft of Rudie Berkhout’s Holography essay for the exhibition catalogue ‘The Floating World –holograms by Rudie Berkhout’ curated by Daniel Belasco. Exhibition and publication by The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, 2016
Der stereoskopische Blick Über Multiplex-Hologramme essay about my practice translated into German for ‘Objects – the Journal of Applied Arts’, No.6, 2013.