Dieter Jung studied theology at Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin, fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, and experimental film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His first academic post was a guest professorship at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil in 1975. While studying at the New York School of Holography in 1977, he realized his initial holograms, Feathers, and developed the technical requirements for the first holographic poem, Hologramm, in collaboration with Donald White from Bell Laboratories. From 1982 until 1985, he explored the efficiency of One-step Rainbow Holography and created the series Into the Rainbow, Present Space and Different Space. Between 1985 and 1989, Jung worked as research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in connection with the Spatial Imaging Group at the Media Lab/MIT on the cycle of holographic LightMills. He later guest lectured at Harvard University and at Sorbonne University, Paris. From 1990-1991, Jung acted as a member of the founding council at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne where he served as a professor for creative holography and light art until 2007. He has also acted as a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Art and Media/ZKM in Karlsruhe, director of the international conference and exhibition Holographic Network: A Visual Journey between Art, Science and Technology at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, a member of the MIT Advisory Council Art-Science-Technology, a member of the academic board of advisors (now think tank) of ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf, and a member of International György Kepes Society in Hungary.
Dieter Jung
Studios
Cheney
Dieter Jung worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…