Jon Seymour

Founder and CEO

Jon made his first holograms with his Dad in a garage sandbox lab in eighth grade, launching a 5-year science fair project. Little did he know an art movement was occurring...

He then went on to study physics at Duke, including some optics research, before pivoting toward medicine, where he has enjoyed a long and successful career as an MD providing decision support to healthcare practitioners and institutions.

In 2015 came his discovery of the incredible art that defines Holo. Over a decade, he pursued, preserved, and acquired these amazing collections in order to show them to the world.

M. Melissa Crenshaw

Collections Manager

https://www.mmelissacrenshaw.com

Melissa has participated in the field of holography since the late 1970s. She initially earned her living as a holographic artist and designer, creating limited-edition holograms that have been exhibited extensively, with many now in international collections.

Since she has always done her own technical work, Melissa gained experience in designing and building out holographic labs, which she has done for a variety of companies. For many years she worked in the industrial holography field, notably creating a patented holographic breakthrough for the commercial lighting industry, termed MesoOptics.

Over the past several years, Melissa has worked with Holo Inc. as the Collections Manager and Artist Liaison. Holo has purchased and is now the home of the extensive Global Images Hologram collection and the entire Rudie Berkhout collection, and is adding to the portfolio as well.

Melissa continues to create art and experimental holograms while offering courses based on what she has learned over these many years as a hands-on practitioner. The possibilities of creative holography are endless, and we have only scratched the surface of what the craft and medium are capable of.

Jiwon Choi

Computational Holography Scientist

Jiwon started her journey to holography during her Master’s program at Northwestern University, where her thesis focused on a critical challenge: finding new ways to digitally archive holograms and quantitatively evaluate the accuracy of those digital preserves, using machine learning techniques.

Now pursuing a PhD in Optical Sciences at University of Arizona, she is expanding her expertise deep into advanced optics and computer vision/computational photography. By bridging classic optical principles with modern digital reconstruction, she is developing the next generation of tools to safeguard, analyze, and share these incredible holographic collections with the world.