Manifest.AR @ ICA

Manifest.AR is an international artists collective working with emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. The group sees this medium as a way of transforming public space and institutions by installing virtual objects and artworks, which respond to and overlay the configuration of located physical meaning. Utilizing this technology as artwork is an entirely new proposition and explores all that we know and experience as the mixture the real and the hyperreal. Physically, nothing changes, the audience can simply download and launch an Augmented Reality Browser app on their iPhone or Android and aim the devices’ camera to view the world around them. 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. Manifest.AR has created a virtual exhibition in and around Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art during the Boston Cyberarts Festival 2011.

Participating Artists:

Mark Skwarek, John Craig Freeman, Will Pappenheimer, Tamiko Thiel, Sander Veenhof, Virta-Flaneurazine, Patrick Lichty, Lily & Honglei, Christopher Manzione, Arthur Peters, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Nathan Shafer, Joseph Hocking, 4 Gentlemen, Damon Baker

 

Manifest.AR Logo Proposals

Augmented Reality: Manifest.AR, an augmented art manifesto in Wired

The AR Art Manifesto

Endorsed by the founding members of the cyberartist group Manifest.AR, on 25 January 2011:

Mark Skwarek, Sander Veenhof, Tamiko Thiel, Will Pappenheimer, John Craig Freeman, Christopher Manzione, and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes.

Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention 2010

Here is some documentation of the Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention 2010, which was part of the 2010 Beta Spaces Exhibition. Will and Mark worked tirelessly on this project, and as I understand it, the work will remain up indefinitely.

The Border Memorial AR Bushwick with McKibben St. industrial sand supply behind by Mark Skwarek, documentation by Will Pappenheimer.

The Border Memorial AR Bushwick with McKibben St. industrial sand supply behind by Mark Skwarek, documentation by Will Pappenheimer.

Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention

Curated by Mark Skwarek, this project will overlay the Bushwick area with a site specific augmented reality that is viewed on mobile devices like iPhones and Androids. Viewers may walk around the Bushwick area and see 3d virtual objects as art, mixed with physical reality on their phones. The project will showcase a variety of artists and different styles of augmented reality.

Both the VF Bufo Toad and the Border Memorial Calaca in the Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention, part of the 2010 Beta Spaces Exhibition.

Buskwick AR Intervention, The Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos in Bushwick, Mark Skwarek and John Craig Freeman.

Install the Layar app on a mobile device and search for Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention.

Bushwick AR Intervention, Virta-Flaneurazine, Bufo Virtanus, Will Pappenheimer and John Craig Freeman.

We AR in MoMA Intervention

Augmented Reality (AR) is the phenomenon adding virtual elements into our physical reality. These addition are viewable by pointing your contemporary smartphone to the world around you. The phone knows where you are (because of GPS) and with this data it connects to the internet to get the relevant images, visuals, 3D shapes and it puts them into your view.

‘AR’ technology allows anyone to (re-)shape anything, anywhere!

An example: the MoMA building NY will host a ‘virtual’ augmented reality show on the 9th of October 2010 But, they don’t know about it yet. The infiltration is part of the Conflux Psychogeoraphy festival.

Mark Skwarek and Sander Veenhof, curated an exhibition of augmented reality art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for this years Conflux. It includes a a collaboration between Mark and me on a version of the Border Art Memorial calaca model.

As shown by Mark Skwarek & John Craig Freeman.

This is a video taken from the ground floor of MoMA’s garden. Overlaying the Garden is “The Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos”.

Oct. 21, 2010, Eduardo Porter, "Is that a dagger I see," NY Times, New York.

Dec. 1, 2010, "Alexander Fidel, Art Gets Unmasked in the Palm of Your Hand," NYTimes, New York.