(Un)seen Sculptures, 2012

Rozelle, Sydney, Australia

In March this year, the second edition of (Un)seen Sculptures, a mobile 3D augmented reality art show, is being presented by dLux MediaArts as part of Art Month 2012.

"DéchARge de Rebut Toxique," John Craig Freeman, Sydney Australia, 2012.

The exhibition will be staged in locations along Darling Street, Rozelle and throughout the Callan Park precinct, and will feature works by Australian artists and international visitors from as far afield as the USA, China, Portugal, Germany, and the Netherlands.

ARtSENSE Consortium Meeting, Paris

From January 24th to the 26th Will Pappenheimer and Tamiko Thiel traveled, on behalf of ManifestAR, to Paris to meet with representatives of FACT and ARtSENSE Consortium members at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

ManifestAR was recently awarded The ARtSENSE Commission at the Foundation for Creative Technology in Liverpool. FACT is one of Europe’s principle institutions, commissioning canonical works and exhibitions in film, video and new media in the last 20 years.

Water wARs, by John Craig Freeman, Musée du Louvre, Paris, January 25, 2012.

Our proposal, entitlted “Invisible ARtaffects” will explore the linked appearance of augmented virtual objects with audience response translated through compact wearable bio, audio, eye and brainwave sensing devices.

DéchARge de Rebut Toxique, by John Craig Freeman, Musée du Louvre, Paris, January 25, 2012.

I am developing EEG AR: Things We Have Lost for my contribution to the project.

Comment j’ai augmenté ma réalité

J’ai été bluffé par l’exposition en réalité augmentée « We AR in MoMA »(2010). Les artistes Mark Swarek et Sander Veenhof ont investi les salles du musée d’art contemporain de New-York pour présenter des œuvres sans y avoir été conviés (lire le hors-série papier MCD « Internet des objets » paru en février 2011). Ce squatt artistique a créé un sacré précédent. Au-delà de la nécessité ou de la difficulté d’exposer dans les lieux sacrés dédiés à l’art contemporain, c’est tout l’aspect hacking qui m’a sauté aux yeux et m’a donné envie de me lancer.

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La conquête des espaces

A Paris, ce sont des fûts de rebuts toxiques que John Craig Freeman a entassés près de Beaubourg, de la tour Eiffel et du Louvre, déversant sa décharge dans les pays carburant à l’atome. Ces actions sont, pour l’instant, limitées techniquement à des images statiques s’alignant avec la topographie urbaine. Mais le médium laisse entrevoir de nouvelles manières d’infester et remodeler la réalité qui nous entoure. «L’art RA défie la gravité, il est caché et doit être trouvé. Il est instable et inconstant. Il est et devient, réel et immatériel», écrivent les artistes qui préparent l’invasion de la prochaine biennale de Venise.

Marie Lechner, Libération. Read more

COLLISION16:fluid

COLLISION16:fluid

Fri, 02/25/2011 - Sat, 03/26/2011

AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media

Our world is fluid. Seven tenths of the Earth’s surface is water; a similar ratio holds for the body’s proportion of liquid to solid. Interesting things happen in fluid, and life seeks it out. Discrete elements dissolve and commingle. Change is swift and subtle forces hold sway, opening possibilities. Our culture and our creations exist solely in the fluid realm, exceeding the limits of material liquid and leaving us grasping the paradigm of change as the only solid.

COLLISION16:fluid, the sixteenth COLLISIONcollective group show of new work, explores the concept of the fluid and the changing, in a wide variety of manifestations and interpretations. These works range from a piece in which pixels on screen are programed to act like a liquid, to works that explores the fluid boundaries of our perception, from work that aesthetisizes the “glitch” —an unanticipated or undesired change in the media stream, to a work that uses images projected on ice to explore our changing climate. What these works have in common is that they they express the contingent and the unforeseeable. As technology’s rate of change continues to get faster and faster, it has dramatic consequences for our culture. In order to reflect our would, our art must be able to embody the fluid. The work in COLLISION16:fluid does exactly that.

COLLISION16:fluid  co-curated by John Slepian and William Tremblay.

Work by: Jonathan Bachrach and Jonathan Ward, Kevin Benisvy, W. Benjamin Bray, Chris Fitch, John Craig Freeman, Rob Gonsavles, Giles Hall, Ben Houge, Heidi Kayser, Georgina Lewis, dan paluska, Dan Roe, John Slepian, Mark J. Stock, Wayne Strattman

DéchARge de Rebut Toxique

Décharge de Rebut Toxique is an augmented reality public art project built for smart phone mobile devices. The public can simply download and launch the Layar Augmented Reality Browser app on their iPhone or Android and aim the devices’ camera at the area around Green Street Station and all other outbound south Orange Line stations. The application uses geolocation software to superimpose computer generated three-dimensional art objects, enabling the public to see the work integrated into the physical location as if it existed in the real world.

With locations in New York, Boston and Paris, Décharge de Rebut Toxique consists of sprawling radiotoxic waste dumps at a time when the world is reconsidering its policies on nuclear energy after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Instructions:

1) Download the Layar Augmented Reality Browser to your iPhone or Android now

2) Launch the app and search for or click ”COLLISION16“

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Décharge de Rebut Toxique, COLLISION16:fluid opening, Axiom. By Agent Calhoun.

DéchARge de Rebut Toxique

Images from DéchARge de Rebut Toxique in Paris.

Centre Pompidou

 

Eiffel Tower

Musée du Louvre

AR Toxic Waste Spreads

I feel it is my duty to bring you all the grave news that the augmented reality crisis is indeed spreading. What began as a rather whimsical, even playful experiment into the migration of the public sphere into the augmented virtual world by a rogue group of outsider artists, has taken a dark turn indeed. My office informs me that toxic waste dumps have been discovered all along the L line in Bushwick with reports as far west as the Bedford stop.

Even more disconcerting is recent international press coverage of a similar phenomenon in at multiple locations in Paris including Southeast of the Eiffel Tower, the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo and La Gaîté Lyrique. This would seem to confirm our fears that the outbreak has indeed spread to Europe. I believe that it is imperative that the French media be alerted so that the public can be adequately informed and take necessary safety precautions.

Please send screen captures to john_craig_freeman at emerson.edu. I will post them.

Radioactive Waste in Boston’s Public Garden

Here is an image of the Toxic Waste augmentation with Evan Leek at Boston’s Public Garden.