A HISTORY OF PIONEERING WORK IN MEDIA ARTS:

Educated in physics and chemistry, he has brought a combination of technological interests to his multimedia arts which have spanned over 4 decades.

He is continuing works towards a future holographic exhibition comprised of pulsed holograms and installations. He is also President of Surreality Innovations Inc., and is developing a 3D interactive motion-picture project and educational role-playing-adventure game for next-gen content in stereoscopic 3D. His future interests include the holographic 3D video of the future and its web forms.

ART & MEDIA BIO SUMMARY:

He has been creating and exhibiting avant-garde and documentary films and video since the late sixties, holographic displays and art since the early 70's, and web virtual reality and stereoscopic 3D video art since the 90's. During this time he developed custom-made film optical printing, video synthesizer, holographic recording and imaging technologies used in his published and exhibited works. He is a 'hands on' creator and technical innovator who freely acknowledges those 60's - 70's innovators (Moog, Buchla, Whitney, Brakhage, Cross, Benton and others) in the technologies and the arts that influenced his creativities.

He created the first holographic art studio in Canada (Visual Alchemy) and brought holographic art to Canadian audiences for the first time in the late 70's (including an exhibition in Ottawa on Canada Day, organized by Lorraine Monk and opened by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau). His holographic works have been internationally exhibited ever since.

During the 80's he was a tenured Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, and headed a film and video department of production and film studies that steadily produced nationally recognized student achievements. He is a past publisher of two periodicals on film ('Opsis - Journal of Avant-Garde and Political cinema') and holography ('Wavefront'), and has invented / developed a number of film, video, holographic and 3D imaging techniques for art and exhibitions.

His films have received a number of awards, including a 1988 Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and his media art works are found in a number of international collections and have been exhibited internationally, including a 1997 stereoscopic 3D video showing at the Louvre, a 2002 film-video retrospective at the Electronic Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany, and a 2004 exhibition of 3D video, film, video at SeNef, Seoul, Korea.

VIRTUAL REALITY and SPEECH-INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS:

He created his first VR worlds with video textures in 1997 in co-production with the Banff Center for Media Arts and later created a number of VR art works independently. In the mid-90's he created a number of stereoscopic 3D video art works, which were exhibited in solo screenings in Vancouver, Portland, and in 1997 at the Louvre in Paris.

In 2000-01 he was Head of 2D/3D Graphics for the Mission Corporation (Bellevue, WA) in developments of speech-interactive (avatar-based) graphical interfaces for next-generation (post-PC) environments. These environments were speech-interactive virtual reality (3D) settings and achieved demo completion. Razutis is still developing 'next-gen' user interfaces will embody these type of interactive 3D environments.

He continues to create independent works in interactive 3D web graphics, stereoscopic 3D cinema, speech-interactive VR applications, and anticipates the coming of age of future holographic motion-picture technology and content.

Complete lists of published works by Al Razutis in all medias related to the arts and art history can be found at http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/resume-bio.html.

His multimedia archives containing numerous examples of his multimedia art work is archived at http://www.xalrazutis.org/index.html.

His domain portal, containing links to all his media projects, is at: http://www.alchemists.com/.