The Augmented Story unfolds as narrative, revolving around an unnamed protagonist and his movements throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his chance encounter with the mysterious V.
The Augmented Story was made up of twenty-three (23) interactive and augmented Story Frames, which premiered at the FED GALLERIES (KCAD), Grand Rapids, Michigan between August 29 to October 15, 2017.
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.
Machine and human have begun to fold onto each other. In turn, this has created what I refer to as a ‘second skin’.
The term Chimera has had a long and rich history dating back to Greek mythology with the most famous definition defined by Homer in the Odyssey where he describes it as “a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire.”
Holy Cow Television, is comprised of two skinned TV units, one of which is an integrated TV/VCR combo unit. Both TV units rest on a bare wood skeleton frame. A small plastic cow sits in front of the first TV, and its projected double can be seen on the second TV set just behind it.
Project Chorale: AR @ Music Hack Day Montreal Subverting public space via an augmented (AR) sound & image intervention, created by John Naccarato and Shereen Soliman as part of Music Hack Day Montreal on September 25th, 2011, at Eastern Bloc. I should explain what we did first. We stopped random strangers on the street and asked them to …
The Grand Rapids Project was commissioned by Jack Hoedeman with the idea of capturing the history, and present day spirit of the people and the city of Grand Rapids as well as the state of Michigan.
” …the real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control – and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational.” (Jean Baudrillard)
nt for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging”. (Walter Benjamin)