ARtSENSE Commission Research at FACT in Liverpool

In June, four other founding members of ManifestAR including Will Pappenheimer, Mark Skwarek, Tamiko Thiel, John Cleater and I traveled to Liverpool to meet with the FACT curatorial team and ARtSENSE researchers from Liverpool John Moores University to discuss the upcoming “Inside Out” exhibition in February 2013.

Mike Stubbs and Aneta Krzemien, via Skype, FACT Liverpool, 21 June, 2012.

My project “EEG AR: Things We Have Lost,” will allow participants to conjure up virtual objects by simply imagining them into existence using brainwave sensor technology.

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Video by Carl Davies and Mike Donaghy.

Please see Dowser, by Will Pappenheimer.

View the ManifestAR/ARtSENSE Show and Tell public presentation at The Box, FACT, 19th of June, 2012.

Will, Clara and Mark. Rooftop deck and community garden, FACT Liverpool, 12 June, 2012.

Reanimating Ararat

Two Perspectives on Mordecai Noah’s Jewish Homeland

Date: April 16th, 2012
Place: University of Toronto
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Download Reanimating Ararat Poster

“Noah’s Ark on the Niagara: The Intellectual History of Mordecai Manuel Noah’s Territorialism.”
Adam Rovner, University of Denver

“Mapping Ararat: Envisioning a Virtual Jewish Homeland”
Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto
Melissa Shiff, University of Toronto
John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

In 1825 Mordecai Noah proclaimed Grand Island New York to be a refuge for the Jews. He called it Ararat – the rest is history… and digital Art.

With field testing of Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project, on location on Grand Island New York.

Adan Rovner reads Mordecai Noah's proclamation on the virtual Ararat cornerstone, Grand Island, NY, April 17, 2012.

(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.

College Art Association 2012

College Art Association, 100th Annual Conference

Public Art in the Virtual Sphere

, sponsored by the Public Art Dialogue

Christiane Paul, Ben Rubin and John Craig Freeman, Photo by Vaneeesa Blaylock.

Thursday, February 23, 2012, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA

Chairs: Mary M. Tinti, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

Christiane Paul, The New School

Ben Rubin, EAR Studio

Whereas the public square was once the quintessential place to air grievances, display solidarity, express difference, celebrate similarity, remember, mourn, and reinforce shared values of right and wrong, it is no longer the only anchor for interactions in the public realm. That geography has been relocated to a novel terrain, one that encourages exploration of mobile location based public art. Moreover, public space is now truly open, as artworks can be placed anywhere in the world, without prior permission from government or private authorities – with profound implications for art in the public sphere and the discourse that surrounds it.

Browse the Emergent Technology as Art Practice and Public Art as Intervention Presentation.

Please see Vaneeesa Blaylock’s review “Public Art in the Virtual Sphere,” in I Rez Therefore I Am.

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Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making

Jenny Marketou, Sarah Drury and John Craig Freeman, Photo by Vaneeesa Blaylock.

February 25, 2012, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA

Chairs: Hana Iverson, Visiting Scholar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Dr. Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University

I-5_Passing/52 Food Marts Project, Christiane Robbins, Jetztzeit

Narration in Hybrid Mobile Environments, Martha Ladly, Ontario College of Art and Design

Silver (Gateways): Being Here and Everywhere Now, Jenny Marketou, independent artist

Mechanics of Place: Textures of Tophane, Sarah Drury, Temple University

ManifestAR: An Augmented Reality Manifesto, John Craig Freeman, Emerson College

The integration of mobile and locational technology into physical place has broadened the possibilities for the creation of new spaces of interaction and opened the disciplinary boundaries used to define and understand the public arena. When real places are merged with virtual worlds, or augmented with interactive digital media, the result is a completely new “hybrid” environment where physical and digital objects coexist in real time. What are the potentials of mobility spaces as new sites for integrating creative invention, public participation, and social interaction? With presentations from artists, scholars, and interdisciplinary collaborative teams that engage art that incorporates cell phones, GPS, and other mobile technologies, this session focuses on emergent forms of mobile art that engage, subvert, or recombine perceptions of the definable (visible) and indefinable (invisible) aspects of place that simultaneously reveal and construct their stabilities and instabilities, their materiality and nonmateriality.

Browse the ManifestAR: An Augmented Reality Manifesto Presentation.

Please see Vaneeesa Blaylock’s review “Where is Public Space?,” in I Rez Therefore I Am.

ManifestAR @ LA Re.Play

LA Re.Play, an Exhibition of Mobile Art in conjunction with Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking during the College Arts Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, February 22-29, 2012

Co-curators: Hana Iverson, Visiting Scholar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Dr. Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University and Jeremy Hight, independent artist and curator

Opening reception at CAA Convention Center LA Re.Play Hub Location, Wednesday, February 22, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Reception: DMA Grad Art Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA, Friday, February 24, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Mobilizing Los Angeles as a place to play and a place in play, LA Re.Play presents leading international artists working with mobile and geolocated media. The exhibit accompanies the double session presentation on Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, co-organized by Hana Iverson and Mimi Sheller for the College Arts Association 2012 conference, as well as an off-conference roundtable City/Space and Creative Measure, moderated by Jeremy Hight at the Art Center. Playing upon the dynamic relations between physical place, digital space, and mobile access via smartphone, we explore art that incorporates cell phones, GPS and other mobile technology, revealing the complex social, political, technological and physiological effects of new mixed reality interactions.

More on the Project Page.

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Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana, Otra realidad es posible, El Pais.

CRCA Exchange #9: Augmenting Interventions

The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) is pleased to invite you to:

AUGMENTING INTERVENTIONS

Featuring CRCA Visiting Researcher: John Craig Freeman

Wednesday February 15, 6pm – 7pm
CRCA Performative Computing Lab
Room 1606
Atkinson Hall
UCSD Voigt Drive, La Jolla

CRCA Exchange is open to the public and is followed by a reception.

Browse the Augmenting Interventions Presentation.

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.

Border Memorial Field Test and Documentation

On Tuesday, January 16th, after three days of driving from New England, I arrived in Benson Arizona, which put me on the shore of the Border Memorial database. I spent the next two days driving throughout southern Arizona documenting as many of the individual data points as possible. The work was sobering and intense, but the projects performed perfectly.

There was a dusting of snow in the mountains the night before, but it is already 50 degrees. So the conditions can be pretty extreme, more on video.

On the road to Ajo along Arizona Highway 86.

Border fence near the Lukeville crossing in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Out of the Box

Out of the Box is a mobile augmented reality exhibition showcasing a selection of virtual reality artworks spanning 1997-2011 during the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2012 conference of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2012. Released from the confines of their virtual reality installations,11 virtual reality artworks have been re-contextualized for augmented reality and displayed in the streets of San Francisco. Out of the Box is curated by the Future of Reality artist collective and features artwork by the following artists:

• Applied Interactives
• Atlas in silico
• Bino and Cool
• Sheldon Brown
• Ben Chang
• Margaret Dolinsky
• Diana Domingues
• John Craig Freeman
• Paul Hertz
• Will Pappenheimer
• Silvia Ruzanka

Vita-Rat, "Out of the Box," Future of Reality, Chinatown San Francisco, January 22, 2012.

La Lotería Aumentada @ LA Re.Play

A new version of La Lotería Aumentada, an Borderline Project, by Patricia Espinosa and John Craig Freeman, will premier at ManifestAR @ LA Re.Play, an Exhibition of Mobile Art in conjunction with Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking during the College Arts Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, February 22-29, 2012.

Whereas the public square was once the quintessential place to air grievances, display solidarity, express difference, celebrate similarity, remember, mourn, and reinforce shared values of right and wrong, it is no longer the only anchor for interactions in the public realm. That geography has been relocated to a novel terrain, one that encourages exploration of mobile location based public art. Moreover, public space is now truly open, as artworks can be placed anywhere in the world, without prior permission from government or private authorities – with profound implications for art in the public sphere and the discourse that surrounds it.