The Augmented City was made up of multiple Story Markers – distinctive GPS co-ordinates and landmarks throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Some of these markers were site-specific to a location, consisting of landmarks, architectural structures and designs such as the mural found across from Fed Galleries. Others consist of non-site-specific elements such as street signs and could be triggered anywhere throughout the city.
The project, ‘The Obscure Objects of Desire and the Rise of the Technological Chimera’ looks at how media technologies are remediated. How such technologies manifesting as objects emit a presence which is not singularly transparent but is in a sense haunted.
A group of 42 artists including myself took up the call by organizers/artists – Mark Skwarek from New York and Sander Veenhof from the Netherlands, to create an (AR) Augmented Reality Intervention on the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in NYC on October 29, 2010
The ‘Day for Night Project’ in the Press: ArtPrize 9 Juror’s Shortlist Public Response – Larry Ossei-Mensah
Interview with Larry Ossei-Mensah 9/25/17 Interviewer: Jim Moreno Camera: Brandon Cooley Produced by The Rapidian and GRTV Proud services of the Community Media Center
For the ninth iteration of the world’s most radically open art event, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University’s (KCAD’s) TheFedGalleries @ KCAD will unveil an exhibition that explores the gap between our authentic experiences of reality and the artificial experiences we encounter daily through a never-ending and ever-evolving barrage of media.
Promotional Video for ArtPrize 9, 2017 hosted in Grand Rapid, MI – showing various venues and artworks including The Day for Night Project by John Naccarato which was part of the group exhibit at The Fed Galleries, KCAD, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
The DAY for NIGHT Project was a Fiction-Based Interactive AR (Augmented Reality) project consisting of two parts: the Augmented Story and the Augmented City. The Augmented Story was made up of twenty-three (23) interactive and augmented Story Frames (mounted prints) which premiered at the FED GALLERIES (KCAD), Grand Rapids, Michigan between August 29 to October 15, 2017.