Exhibitions Hana

Temporary Shows: MoMA

Everyday pedestrians viewed through early American beveled window glass. Text is wrapped around the edge of the 3D tryptich. The panels function as opaque windows and are inspired by the 3 arches on the tower of Independence Hall. The spaces between the panels allow the viewer to actually “see through” to the real-time world.

Common Ground

“I have worked in Virtual Space before but loved the opportunity to apply that method to Augmented Reality. Feels like a door opened and I want to continue.”

Artist Statement

In my current work, I use cell phones and mobile media devices to gather and produce sonic, visual and location based information that is integrated and fashioned into a new form of public art that functions in the midst of everyday experience. In much of this work, the art is dependent upon and in participation with physical movement that triggers the experience, hidden in the invisible layers of the urban landscape. In mobile computing and immersive interaction, the space between the user of portable/wearable media and the image is one in which real time and space can play moment by moment against visual objects. Physical movement and spatial behavior shift the representational status of the image from the screen/surface to space/embodiment. Thus the central themes on which I focus are “place” and “embodiment.”

In my photo-based work, I investigate the image as an artifact, a narrative and material fragment of memory, culture and ephemeral experience. I have an intimate relationship with the tactility and physicality of the photographic image, as print, book, and carefully archived artifact. In my engagement with the digital image, the photograph becomes subject to transmission, alteration, databasing, hypertextual notation, along with projection and other forms of spatialization within the built and natural world. My current practice in locative media engages with the dematerialized photographic image, and the possibilities that unfold from its transmissibility. The image transforms into sound, space, surfaces and signs, decomposing into a digital landscape built of ideas and references points.

Hana Iverson