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An artist since he held a crayon.
A sculptor since playdoh and a media artist
from when he first beheld a flashlight.
Given a tape recorder as a child, he recorded
his own, detective shows, and news casts.
Trained from second grade as a musician,
he added poetry and prose as he progressed through school.
Richard was introduced to the world of mixed media by
a group of artists who'd been together since the 1940's.
One of the groups leaders Mel Tanner agreed to teach
him the tools of performance mixed media...
that was the beginning.
Mixed media then mean overhead projectors, opaque projectors
coherent light and then adding the "liquid effects" of the typical
psychedelic light show of the sixties. There were also a collection
of specialty effects machines that provided a broader palette.
Mel Tanner a fantastic media genius, also in conjunction with
the other members of the Lumonic Group also created Plexiglas
or "Lucite" sculptures which, transparent and opaque and
translucent, cubes, spheres, cones, pyramids; pulsed to the music.
Richard then joined the planetarium media staff at the
Buehler Planetarium at Broward Community College, then the
Miami Space Transit Planetarium as a multimedia artist and
planetarium "Star Machine" operator.
It was then time to "hit the light show road" first with
Kenvin Lyman, who had earned a "Doctor of Lumia" at the Sorbonne.
His Dazzleland Studios had produced the famous "Tunnel Effect"
in the film "2001 a Space Odessey". Kenvin had done his doctorate
on the history of multimedia arts and had traced the Light Show
back to performances in Mozart's time when artists combined
fabric, lenses and candles to create fields of dancing color
and shape.
Hired as a Laser Artist by Laser Images, of Van Nuys, and then
Chief Artist and Technical Producer with Laser Productions of Miami.
Richard learned programming on the primitive early first generations
of computers, designing Laser Light Effects. Later working with
early Atari and Amiga graphics he produced early commercial graphics
in basic and machine language. After producing an Animation for
"Club Nu" an early night spot on South Beach, Richard was hired
to teach visualization graphics technology to architects and engineers.
Utilizing the first generation of image editing and photo touch-up
Engaged by broadcast media to studied broadcast electronics to improve
his technical skills and stay in broadcast. Invited as a guest
then as a artist and director he entered TV through the UHF station
in Hollywood, Florida. Later he received training as an editor in one of the
busiest video production studios in Miami.
Meeting a radio producer at a Poetry Competition he was invited to write
a radio comedy project. He titled it "Martian Ambassador, and the
Captured Chorus", skit comedy show with 90% original comedy and 10 percent
classic material re-purposed for radio from the likes of Twain, O Henry
and Blake, with the help of a team of talented actors the Live Hour of science fiction
comedy became a Public Radio Classic. When his show annoyed enough upper management
to get booted off the air, the replacement show, Pandemonium, another
live radio comedy invited the "Martian Ambassador, to continue writing, directing
and performing for it's entire 15 year run on WLRN FM, in Miami.
Richard was engaged over the years to write for commercial presentations and several
of his playes received commercial staging. One project Literacy Tribute called
"READ RABBIT READ" was followed by several Halloween spook-takulars, including the
"Zombie Stomp", and a special Quincentenial Salute to the Columbus Adventure entitled
"Christofero Columbo's Dreams", about the backstory of Chris's Behind the throne
connections to the Court of Isabella and Ferdinand. Later work ranged from
the romantic staging of "The LoveSong of Godzilla and Mothra" and "Up from Dido's Couch"
to more SCI-FI oriented pieces like "The Caged Ape Banned" about signing chimps
at the U.N. and "Man's Home" about an accident at a Nuclear Plant.
Richard continues to write, essays, plays and poetry with one goal, to catalyze
a mixture of thought provoking material and the high-Irony, of contemporary life.
Richard W. Spisak Jr.
A sculptor since playdoh and a media artist
from when he first beheld a flashlight.
Given a tape recorder as a child, he recorded
his own, detective shows, and news casts.
Trained from second grade as a musician,
he added poetry and prose as he progressed through school.
Richard was introduced to the world of mixed media by
a group of artists who'd been together since the 1940's.
One of the groups leaders Mel Tanner agreed to teach
him the tools of performance mixed media...
that was the beginning.
Mixed media then mean overhead projectors, opaque projectors
coherent light and then adding the "liquid effects" of the typical
psychedelic light show of the sixties. There were also a collection
of specialty effects machines that provided a broader palette.
Mel Tanner a fantastic media genius, also in conjunction with
the other members of the Lumonic Group also created Plexiglas
or "Lucite" sculptures which, transparent and opaque and
translucent, cubes, spheres, cones, pyramids; pulsed to the music.
Richard then joined the planetarium media staff at the
Buehler Planetarium at Broward Community College, then the
Miami Space Transit Planetarium as a multimedia artist and
planetarium "Star Machine" operator.
It was then time to "hit the light show road" first with
Kenvin Lyman, who had earned a "Doctor of Lumia" at the Sorbonne.
His Dazzleland Studios had produced the famous "Tunnel Effect"
in the film "2001 a Space Odessey". Kenvin had done his doctorate
on the history of multimedia arts and had traced the Light Show
back to performances in Mozart's time when artists combined
fabric, lenses and candles to create fields of dancing color
and shape.
Hired as a Laser Artist by Laser Images, of Van Nuys, and then
Chief Artist and Technical Producer with Laser Productions of Miami.
Richard learned programming on the primitive early first generations
of computers, designing Laser Light Effects. Later working with
early Atari and Amiga graphics he produced early commercial graphics
in basic and machine language. After producing an Animation for
"Club Nu" an early night spot on South Beach, Richard was hired
to teach visualization graphics technology to architects and engineers.
Utilizing the first generation of image editing and photo touch-up
Engaged by broadcast media to studied broadcast electronics to improve
his technical skills and stay in broadcast. Invited as a guest
then as a artist and director he entered TV through the UHF station
in Hollywood, Florida. Later he received training as an editor in one of the
busiest video production studios in Miami.
Meeting a radio producer at a Poetry Competition he was invited to write
a radio comedy project. He titled it "Martian Ambassador, and the
Captured Chorus", skit comedy show with 90% original comedy and 10 percent
classic material re-purposed for radio from the likes of Twain, O Henry
and Blake, with the help of a team of talented actors the Live Hour of science fiction
comedy became a Public Radio Classic. When his show annoyed enough upper management
to get booted off the air, the replacement show, Pandemonium, another
live radio comedy invited the "Martian Ambassador, to continue writing, directing
and performing for it's entire 15 year run on WLRN FM, in Miami.
Richard was engaged over the years to write for commercial presentations and several
of his playes received commercial staging. One project Literacy Tribute called
"READ RABBIT READ" was followed by several Halloween spook-takulars, including the
"Zombie Stomp", and a special Quincentenial Salute to the Columbus Adventure entitled
"Christofero Columbo's Dreams", about the backstory of Chris's Behind the throne
connections to the Court of Isabella and Ferdinand. Later work ranged from
the romantic staging of "The LoveSong of Godzilla and Mothra" and "Up from Dido's Couch"
to more SCI-FI oriented pieces like "The Caged Ape Banned" about signing chimps
at the U.N. and "Man's Home" about an accident at a Nuclear Plant.
Richard continues to write, essays, plays and poetry with one goal, to catalyze
a mixture of thought provoking material and the high-Irony, of contemporary life.
Richard W. Spisak Jr.