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Jason Sapan (born 1950) is the founder of Holographic Studios, the world's oldest gallery of holography, located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. He is one of the pioneers of holography, and has also worked as an educator, recording engineer, artist, blogger, and actor. He has created portrait holograms of Andy Warhol, President Bill Clinton, Isaac Asimov, NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Prime Minister Edward Heath, Pierre Cardin, Sally Jessy Raphael, John Kenneth Galbraith, Phyllis Diller, Billy Idol, The Smothers Brothers, Phil Donahue, and John Cage. His corporate clientele include commissions for Mitsubishi, AT&T, Tag Heuer, Goodyear, IBM and NYU Medical Center.
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Sapan has lectured at the School of the Visual Arts in NYC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ohio State University, University of Vermont, City College of New York, New York University, and various other schools. He ran a Summer class at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Grad School at NYU. As an Assistant Professor, he created a class titled "Hologram Hacks" in the Fall 2015 semester where students made holograms as an element of a project where the hologram served as a means to an end.
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Career
Sapan, also known as Dr. Laser, has been a professional holographer for 40 years in New York City. His career began in 1968 working at the first exhibition of holography (created by Bell Labs) at the Time Life building in New York City. He is best known for his holographic portraiture and laser special effects.
Before founding Holographic Studios in 1979, Sapan worked as an assistant recording engineer at Record Plant Studios in New York City, at a time when they were recording with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Dizzy Gilespie, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Tammy Wynette, George Jackson, Roberta Flack, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sapan produced the laser light effects for the original Studio 54 on CBS, the Flock of Seagulls music video, "It's Not Me Talking," and the cult film, Class of Nuke 'Em High. He also served as a consultant for the film Vanilla Sky, and did laser effects for the ABC Weekend Special, Jeeter Mason and the Magic Headset. He became a member of the Editorial Board of the Lohud Exchange of the Journal News in 2016.