Week 3 – Feb 19th

Geospatial / networked / infrastructural space / AR

An addictive Google Street View game: http://geoguessr.com
…and another one: http://www.earth-picker.com/

https://vimeo.com/237037468
Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba
by Razan AlSalah (preview)

Oum Ameen, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Maps Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.
National Disintegrations by Braden King
a film about freeport zones
in Bomb Magazine with Keller Easterling

Hito Steyerl

at Artist Space in NYC
Her Duty Free Art essay

Is the Museum a Battleground
lecture-performance by Hito Steyerl

Josh Begley

Lots of great projects visualizing data and/or using Google Earth imagery

Thanks Shauna for mentioning this Josh Begley journey along the US Mexico border via satellite images.

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Artists Working with Mixed Reality / AR

Google AR products and development resources

Google’s development platform ARCore
About the developer tools
Google Lens

https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/

Featured experiments made with Google AR tools (2017)

Blast Theory
location-based games, interactive films, more
“Blast Theory is a pioneering artist group creating interactive art to explore social and political questions, placing audience members at the centre of our work.”
Projects
Projects using mobile technologies
Take Me To the Bridgewater
We Made Ourselves Over

Teri Reub – GPS Sound Walks, +, employs “drifting”
Fens
https://vimeo.com/206308146
Drift
https://vimeo.com/47798251
Core Sample
https://vimeo.com/35759206

Chance Ecologies
Sound Walk: Listening to Dutch Kills
A public art project by Chance Ecologies, curated and produced by artists Catherine Grau, Nathan Kensinger, and Sarah Nelson Wright, with participating artists including Nate Dorr, Edrex Fontanilla, and Rachel Stevens. This walk explores the Dutch Kills, a tributary of the Newtown Creek, highlighting the hidden ecologies and green spaces around this polluted urban landscape. It include creative sound pieces from the perspectives of several species.

On soundcloud

Patternist
http://pattern.ist/#
at the New Museum

SOME CLASSIC AR PROJECTS

Kristin Lucas
Dance with FlARmingos | Dance with FlARmingos – group show
Yardsale in the Sky
Virtual Cat Adoption

Kristin Lucas Signal Culture Interview – AR proj around 25m

ManifestAR
We AR in MoMA
Venice Bienniale intervention (2011)

Mark Skwarek
blog

John Cleater – architect, early adopter
location based – Art OMI show
image based – Things

John Craig Freeman
SF MoMA AR

Mark Roth
Missing the Megafauna

Oyster City

Keiichi Matsuda
Augmented Hyperreality Domestic Robocop
(2011)

MORE ON AR

Ken Perlin, NYU Computer Graphics
working on lightweight, local, shared VR experiences
Holojam – Dia de los Holos

The Reality Lab Lectures – Tuesday, May 26, 2020
TALK TITLE: How to Build a Holodeck
SPEAKER: Ken Perlin (Professor, NYU. Director, Future Reality Lab)

MNI PROJECT FOR NEXT WEEK

PROJECT 1 – situated and narrated

https://geotourist.com (not sure the builder is still working)

Blip AR Blipbuilder – uses surface recognition (or “pages”), but you can use visual prompts in public space
…free for 3 months for educators

https://www.blippar.com/build-ar

Echoes for making audio apps (Thanks Lee)
https://echoes.xyz/echoes-creative-apps

or other platform…

or just audio, with prompts so people know they are in the right place