Al Razutis
132 East Point Rd
Saturna, BC, Canada V0N 2Y0
tel:
(by arrangement) e-mail: alrazutis@ymail.com website: www.alchemists.com
Media artist, engineer and developer with 10+ years expertise in holography, holographic interferometry
and holographic displays, stereoscopic 3D film and video, digital graphics and
web media, speech-interactive avatars, virtual reality, and interactive displays.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS - HOLOGRAPHY & STEREOSCOPIC 3D
- Developer of custom holographic
imaging facilities and techniques (transmission, reflection, interferometric,
multi-channel and transfer technologies).
- Designed and developed film and
video FX technologies and techniques.
- Produced and internationally exhibited stereoscopic
3D film/video short subjects and experimental imaging techniques and content.
- Designed and developed speech-interactive
3D avatar content and delivery systems.
- Publisher and editor of periodicals
on holography and film.
- Designed and developed 3D interactive
media for the web and kiosk presentation.
- Educator in film, 3D film, 2D - 3D video, holography, critical studies
and theater design.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Transmission and volume reflection hologram mastering
– imaging and processing.
- White-Light Rainbow transmission holography.
- Holographic Interferometry and mastering.
- Holographic optical elements (HOE).
- Laser development and maintenance.
- Hologram exhibition technologies.
- Virtual Reality - 3D worlds - avatar animation project lead.
- 3D walk-throughs - multi-media 3D worlds.
- Over 10 yrs Html, Dhtml, Css,
JS, VRML, SR encoding, Flash,and 2D - 3D web media.
- Producing, Directing, Cinematography,
Lighting, Editing, Visual FX, Stereography, video compression, stereo image
editing, conforming and publishing.
- Writing and editing of technical
papers.
- Win NT, XP, Win 7, Win Media.
- Holographic and Multi-media Education and Project
Management.
- Supervision of demo presentation
and supporting technical materials.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2010 – Avatar animator and Video Editor, Sonora Technologies, B.C., Canada
Responsibilities:
- 3D model and speech-animate in Poser - Mimic - Studio 3 software a female avatar as per client's requirements.
- Video edit, compress and integrate 'Kora' avatar (for VSDN - Digislide) in Powerpoint presentation.
2010 - Holographic Installation, Deja Vu Exhibition of Holographic
Art and Stereoscopic 3D, Vancouver, Canada
Responsibilities:
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Venue selection, technical installation, laser and white-light
illumination of holograms, maintenance of facilities and hardware for duration
of exhibition
2010 - Stereoscopic 3D
film producer - director - stereographer, independent productions
in HD 3D, Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities:
- Produce, location manage, co-ordinate production.
- Write scenario and screenplay, and cast actors.
Arrange vendors, select stereo 3D rig and test
quality.
Direct and shoot HD 3D films as per
scenario requirements.
Conform and edit material; present results as required.
2010-2009 – Project Designer
and lead, Sonora Technologies, B.C., Canada
Responsibilities:
- Write script and record audio-video of avatar content in video shoot; edit and prepare all video material extending linked content.
- 3D model and speech animate in SR browser environment a female avatar as per client' s requirements.
- Design and produce speech-interactive
avatar 'Sonora' for Sonora Technologies
Inc., Canada, for presentation at B.C. Showcase, 2010
Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Canada.
- Code all html and JavaScript browser
content for avatar environment.
- Supervise 3D modeling and animation
for 'Sonora' avatar.
- Install and de-bug all software
/ hardware for kiosk presentation of avatar content and speech-interactive
media.
2009-2007 – Producer-director-project
lead, pulsed holography, independently produced
at Laser Reflections, Las Vegas, NV, and Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities:
- Utilizing leased studio, design
and produce pulsed master transmission holograms of human and sculptural
subjects with GEOLA pulsed laser and holocamera.
- Create a three-series body of
pulsed hologram and sculptural works that was exhibited in 2010 in Vancouver,
Canada.
- Make white-light transmission
transfers of master holograms as study for future installations.
2006 - 2002
Distinctions:
- 'Classic Suite', a four-piece set of
interferometric holograms by Al Razutis, is feautured on the cover of 'Basics
of Interferometry' (2nd edition 2006) P. Hariharam, Academic Press.
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Invited to present a retrospective of film, video, stereoscopic 3D video at Seoul Net and Film Festival (SENEF, 2004), Seoul, Korea, and the Electronic Media Arts Festival (SENEF), Seoul, Korea (2004).
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Invited to present a retrospective of film, video, performance with VR at Electronics Media Arts Festival (EMAF, 2002), Osnabruch, Germany (2002).
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2011-1996 - Web-Master
and Web graphics artist, Visual Alchemy, Los Angeles, CA, Saturna,
Canada
Responsibilities:
- Create content and layout and manage web sites
for cultural, corporate, foundation, scientific, and entertainment clients with client-driven designs
(eg. SIPOA.ca, AnnePopperwell.com, Saturnarec.org, LosZacatitos.net, RobertaBooth.com,. Spindulys.com, Jane Fontana, Los Angeles, CA; American Museum of Beat
Art, Los Angeles, CA; Hi-Q Industries,
Arcadia, CA; SACOR Inc., Los Angeles, CA.)
- Create all graphics elements,
e-commerce, 3D displays, HTML and VRML design-programming, audio and video
displays, interactive PDF forms, quick-time VR and Ipix walk-throughs, biographic
libraries and resources. Domain registration, server configuration, file
update management.
- Produce internet web sites featuring
experimental use of video and dynamic content, Virtual Reality (VRML 2.0)
- Commissioned sites include VRML elements for 6DOS: The Library for Bell
Northern - Nancy Paterson, and Uroboros VRML 2.0 for Banff Center, Alberta.
2001-2000 - Head of Virtual Reality and Animation,
Mission Corporation, Bellevue, WA
Responsibilities:
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Created and headed Web Graphics - 3D Animation - Virtual Reality
department at Bellevue, WA. start-up company.
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Oversee budget, hardware aquisitions, hiring, and workflow as department head reporting to the CEO.
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Successfully conduct R&D and product development in speech-interactive VR avatar with
set-top box technologies.
- Manage staff of 2D graphics artists, Flash animators,
web-designers, 3D (Max and Maya) modelers and animators, virtual reality and
speech-recognition artists.
- Laiason with software and hardware development departments with priorities for avatar set top box development and demos.
- Manage technical designs, production, quality control, and schedules
for creation of prototype interfaces and demonstration displays.
- Supervise demo development and presentations in Bellevue WA,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1999-1995
- Documentary Video and Stereoscopic 3D Video producer-director,
independent productions, Los Angeles, CA, Vancouver, Canada
Responsibilities:
- Writing, producing, directing,
cinematography, stereoscopy, editing, and visual FX on all independently produced stereoscopic 3D films.
1999-1995 Distinctions:
- (1999 - 1995) Received four awards from the
Shearwater Foundation to produce and direct a series of video and DVD documentaries
on west-coast holographic artists.
- (1999 - 1996) Produced and directed innovative
and award-winning Stereoscopic-3D videotapes which received top awards at Southern California
Stereo 3D Film Festivals
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Invited to present self-authored stereoscopic 3D video program of video art at the Louvre, Paris,
France (1997)
1994 – Writer, ‘Laser Lab’, Secondary Education Physics
Handbook, Hi-Q Products, Arcadia, USA.
Responsibilities:
- Research and write all content for handbook on holography and lasers for secondary school physics classes.
- Prepare and test experiments for laboratory component of book.
- Edit and confirm contents of book with external evaluators.
1993-1991 – Installation Lead, ‘Images in Time and
Space’, touring holographic works exhibition, Pasadena and Burbank, USA.
Responsibilities:
- Manage staff for installation and exhibition of large collection of holographic works.
- Supervise all construction and installation of lights, holograms, supporting structures
for display.
- Maintain exhibition in excellent condition during the duration
of shows.
- Supervise closing and packaging of exhibition for storage.
1987-1978 - Professor - Educator, Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University,
Canada.
Associate Professor (Tenured) and Head of Film-Video program.
Responsibilities:
- Create and develop new curriculum in film production, video production, film studies, film analysis and film theory at the undergraduate level.
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Oversee film and video production by students, deliver evaluations, and oversee film studies curriculum
at the undergraduate level as senior member of academic department.
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Take lead in hiring, budgets, curriculum and administration,
and teaching of selected courses (film production, video production, screenwriting,
critical studies, special topics workshops, including holography) in four-year undergraduate
program.
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Oversee student productions in stereoscopic 3D film; oversee the public presentation of these works by developing projection and screen technology.
- (Resigned in 1987 to pursue independent production.)
1986 – Chair of Practical Holography Panel, SPIE Conference, Practical Holography, Los
Angeles
Publication:
- ‘Bride stripped bare: on the problems of interpretation of holographic
art', Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Practical Holography
II, T.H. Jeong (Ed.), Vol. 747, pp. 84-89. 1987.
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‘Art and Holography’, invited paper, Canadian Holography Conference,1986,
Ottawa, Canada.
1985 - Holography
Instructor, Directed Studies and Physics course, Simon Fraser University,
Canada
Responsibilities:
- Curriculum design, lectures, lab demonstrations, and evaluation of student work in
basic holography.
1986-1984 - Publisher and Editor, 'Wavefront' holography
magazine and 'Opsis' Journal of Avant-Garde and political Cinema., Vancouver,
BC
Responsibilities:
- Write articles and edit materials from contributors to the magazine.
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Coordinate activities between editors, contributors and designers of each issue of the publication.
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Supervise external vendors, all financial aspects, accounts, and technologies required for publication of magazine.
1985 - Artist in Residence, Fringe Research, Toronto
Responsibilities:
- Interferometric hologram mastering and multi-color white-light
transmission hologram transfers using S. Benton techniques.
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Perform all required calculations, tests, and evaluations for generating and transfering interferometric holograms.
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This work has been
internationally exhibited.
Education
1967 California Western Univ. - BA, Majors: Chemistry, Physics; Minors:
Mathematics, Biology (Cum Laude)
1968 Univ. of California, Davis - (graduate fellowship -
PhD program): Nuclear Chemistry. (Resigned)
Associations
International 3D Society, Member
Society for Information Display (SID), Member.
Citizenship: USA,
Canada