“This week: Augmented reality art exhibits.
“So, what are augmented reality art exhibits?
“Exhibitions that utilize overlayed realities as part of the experience, usually taking the form of a mixed reality which blends the physical and augmented environments. These exhibits can take two forms, the commissioned type and the unsanctioned guerrilla attacks which infiltrate galleries or public spaces to showcase AR art. The exhibits can use projection mapping, like in augmented sculptures, or utilize smartphones as a looking glass through which reality is altered.
“Where did it come from?
“The use of augmented reality in exhibition spaces is an emerging field, just beginning to take form and experiencing an experimental sandbox phase. AR artist Helen Papagiannis merges old techniques with new as she commingles the real with the virtual. While artist Pablo Valbuena has been layering projected realities onto objects with his Augmented Sculpture series since 2007. And then there’s the virtual reality hackers like global cyberartist group Manifest.AR whose members arranged the DIY AR invasion of MoMA last year—their hijacking of the physical realm via virtual technologies may seem entirely newfangled, but they have lineage with cross-disciplinary art groups like Neo-Dadaists Fluxus…”
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