“Occupying Virtual Space: AR(t)” With the proliferation of smartphones and free public apps such as Junaio and Layar, channels of virtual space paralleling real locations have become a new architectural space in which to create, exhibit, and distribute art. Though uncurated and uncontrolled, this virtual landscape draws on the aura of the real spaces in which it is anchored, playing at protest, playing at deconstruction, without ever completely manifesting.
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes is a media artist, film- maker, and writer. His works seek out new connections between the real and the virtual, the cinematic and the actual, fine art and popular experience. http://www.GARhodes.com
May 19, 2012 at 9:18 pm |
Wow Craig, so many powerful ideas in 9 minutes and 12 seconds. I wasn’t familiar with GARhodes (haha, I have so much to learn!) but he sure does a nice job of both discussing and presenting so many ideas about augmented, virtual, mixed reality spaces and the cultural and conceptual ramifications.
I guess in a way it’s like looking at any geometrically growing phenomena, like Moore’s law or anything else, and then you realize it’s been going on for ages, but was small and unnoticed for a long time. So too, some of these questions can trace to Plato, but the do seem to have a special urgency here in our time.
I did finally peek at Layar the other day – it seemed like if you’re a developer type you can write your own for free… but if you’re not (like me) you have to go do one of those pay platforms. Perhaps I can sort it out further over summer.
Thanks for the great video!
May 19, 2012 at 9:30 pm |
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CHICAGO, 24 February – Reblog of Blog of Video of Talk on Augmented Reality presented as Augmented Reality. Geoffrey Alan Rhodes physically and virtually at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago courtesy of John Craig Freeman.