Bushwick Augmented Reality Invasion 2010
Opened November 14th, 2010
Temporary Shows: Bushwick ARI 2010 MoMA
Ongoing Shows: VPAP: Philadelphia Monument #TLE-001 Cargo Veiled Presence 3D Anamorph Mirrored City Symmetry and Growth
Ongoing Shows: VPAP: Philadelphia Monument #TLE-001 Cargo Veiled Presence 3D Anamorph Mirrored City Symmetry and Growth
Borealises III came about because of the amount of light pollution we have in my hometown of Anchorage. During the winter, an unending wealth of it obscures the northern lights. It has become rare to actually see the aurora from the city limits. The original idea was to make all of the circumpolar north’s space weather systems visible through a handheld computer or smart phone, that could by-pass all of the light pollution and noise from the cities. One of those old digitally remixed get-back-to-nature-through-handhelds chestnuts (sometimes it is pretty hard for me to refer to space weather and plasma as ‘natural’). I like to think of the Borealises as the totally heavy metal weather graphics of some arcane level in a video game nobody plays anymore but still remembers the code how to get there.
Artist Website: www.NathanShafer.org
Borealis III, Nathan Shafer
Basement, Christopher Manzione
Basement, recreates the basement of the house which the artist grew up in. By conflating different memories of the space into one model a number of perspectives, scales, and times are all visible at once. The rocks texture is from a photo taken from the actual basement.
Artist Website: www.ChristopherManzione.com
Info Virus, Warren Armstrong
The Info Virus (Notitiaviridae internets) is part of a larger genus of organisms that may or may not be responsible for spreading memes online. This one is believed to be responsible for disseminating public domain information. The images that flash across its surface are randomly sourced from Wikimedia Commons, and onlookers who are intrepid enough to approach and interact with it are rewarded with a brief random audio dispatch from the past sourced from LibriVox, Musopen or the Internet Archive.
(To hear the dispatch, the onlooker needs to tap on the virus’s label, then press the “Listen” button.)
This is our first animated artwork!
With 15 Frames of Gorgeousness
The Virtual Public Art Project offers three works for this show
The BUSHWICK AUGMENTED REALITY INTERVENTION is and Augmented Reality take over of Bushwick, Brooklyn NY. Artists will rework physical space with computer generated 3d graphics. A wide variety of works ranging from a virtual drug which has broken free of its internet constraints and is now effecting people in the real world, to a unicorn park, to serious commentary on the state of United States veterans will be free for the public to view [with correct mobile device].
Bushwick ARI 2010 was curated by Mark Skwarek
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User Screenshots - Bushwick, NY
User Screenshots - Bushwick, NY