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.
Machine and human have begun to fold onto each other. In turn, this has created what I refer to as a ‘second skin’.
The act of observing or interacting via technological devices generates repetitive gestures. We use these gestures to access our technological devices. Over time, these gestures become recognizable actions intertwined with our personal, social and cultural identity. They become part of our everyday rituals.
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 hive, then, extends itself as part of the environment through the social probing that individual bees enact where the intelligence of the interaction is not located in any one bee, or even a collective of bees as a stable unit, but in the “in-between” space of becoming: bees relating to the mattering milieu, which …
“Ordinarily, upon hearing the word “object”, the first thing we think is “subject”. Our second thought, perhaps, is that objects are fixed, stable and unchanging, and therefore to be contrasted with events and processes. The object, we are told, is that which is opposed to a subject, and the question of the relation between the …
The act of observing or interacting via technological devices generates repetitive gestures. We use these gestures to access our technological devices. Over time, these gestures become recognizable actions intertwined with our personal, social and cultural identity. They become part of our everyday rituals.
The Spaces we AR (St. Henri) “… the privatisation of the public realm, through the growth of ‘private-public’ space, produces over controlled, sterile places which lack connection to the reality and diversity of the local environment, with the result that they all tend to look the same. They also raise serious questions about democracy and …