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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler 3-D history     "A Celebration of Aging" features larger-than-life holograms of people in their 80s and 90s. Artist Harriet Casdin-Silver stands before one of them. (Globe Staff Photo/John Tlumacki) MORE INFORMATION Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m.-1 a.m. Hynes: Room 210 "A Celebration of Aging" Harriet Casdin-Silver has her fingers in a couple of First Night pies. The internationally known holographic artist created this year's First Night button, which shows the word "Boston" busting like firecrackers out of the familiar cityscape. She also designed (with sound artist Kevin Brown) an ambitious holographic installation at the Hynes that combines large holograms with oral history. "A Celebration of Aging" features larger-than-life holographic portraits of nine Boston-area residents in their 80s and 90s. Before each portrait will hang one of Brown's "audiodomes." Stand beneath it, and you hear the voice of the person you're viewing, sharing the memories of his or her life. "I've been working with the issue of aging for a while. I think it's one of the most important issues in society and art," says Casdin-Silver, who will be "three-quarters of a century in February." The ambitious piece features nine holograms installed in an octagon 40 feet across. "This may be my masterpiece," she says. "There's one image of two African-American women together. Their heads are enlarged to 3 feet," she says. Visitors can walk among the holographic images, and view them from front and back. "It's close to my old dream that someday we'll have holographic stage sets," Casdin-Silver says. Casdin-Silver and Brown interviewed their subjects about what life has been like in the 20th century, and what they look forward to in the 21st. "At the end, it came out so well that I did myself," Casdin-Silver says. Her self-portrait is the youngest subject in "A Celebration of Aging." - Cate McQuaid Previous page | Next page

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