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Reject Reality and Substitute Your Own: Using Augmented Reality as Art
Thomas Eberwein, “Ghost” (2013) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic except where noted) Whether you like it or not, the digital invasion of Google Glasses is on its way, bringing the alternate...
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Saying Goobye to the Old Whitney Museum with a Digital Drug Trip
Screenshot of Will Pappenheimer’s “Proxy, 5-WM2A” (2014) (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) Last night the Whitney Museum said goodbye to its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue with a...
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Gallery Uses Augmented Reality to Exhibit Modern Art
Armory Captures at Smart Objects (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — At galleries and museums, art is increasingly competing for attention with the needy screens of visitors’...
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A New App Visualizes the Radio Waves All Around Us
Richard Vijgen, Architecture of Radio app (2015) visualizes electromagnetic radiation (all images by Juuke Schoorl via Architecture of Radio) The modern world is awash in a sea of radio waves —...
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Pokémon Go Users Flock to Museums, Passing Picasso in Search of Pikachu
Screenshots of Pokémon Go when played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (photos by @jeanettehayes/Instagram and @museummammy/Twitter) If you’ve visited a museum in the last few days and spotted...
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More Screens, More Knowledge: Testing the Detroit Institute of Arts’ New...
Visitors use augmented reality devices to look inside the mummy during the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Lumin media preview. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) DETROIT —...
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The Augmented Banality of Jeff Koons Sculptures in Snapchat
Screenshots of the Koons Lens in action (image courtesy Snapchat) Jeff Koons in reality is enough; Jeff Koons in virtual reality is excessive. And now, thanks to Snapchat, we have Jeff Koons in...
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Artist Vandalizes Virtual Koons Sculpture, Questioning Silicon Valley’s Fake...
Rendering of Sebastian Errazuriz and CrossLab’s balloon dog (all images courtesy the artist) It may well be the first act of vandalism to occur in the realm of augmented reality. Artist Sebastian...
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Using Holograms to Bring the Syrian Conflict Into Daily Life
Image from “Holograms from Syria” by Asad J. Malik (all images courtesy the artist) Most realms of augmented reality are designed for our enjoyment. Take Pokémon Go, for instance, or Snapchat’s...
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An Augmented Reality Coral Reef Thrives or Dies by Your Tweets
White Noise AR installation at the Future of Storytelling at Snug Harbor, Staten Island (courtesy Paper Triangles) The White Noise augmented reality (AR) installation pits realtime data on consumption...
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The Gamification of Intimacy Through Dating Sims
Screenshot of the game VR Kanogo (all images by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) The resurgence of accessible artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and augmented...
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Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss
Still from Kristin Lucas’s “Dance with flARmingos” (courtesy the artist) Inside Building 8A, Nolan Park on New York’s Governors Island, visitors are transformed into flamingos. A screen positioned over...
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An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic...
Tamiko Thiel, “Unexpected Growth” (2018), augmented reality installation, healthy phase (courtesy the artist, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art) Visitors to the Whitney Museum of...
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Explore the Interior of a Rembrandt Masterpiece
Screenshot of the Rembrandt Reality app (all photos courtesy Capitola) AMSTERDAM — Recently I walked into a painting. I entered it and was surrounded by its enveloping darkness, its piecemeal...
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Roam the Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum via Augmented Reality
What if you could roam the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, learn about the artwork, and even play some trivia games, all from the comfort of your phone screen? That day has...
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An AR App Wants to Correct the Scarcity of Monuments to Historical Leaders of...
In grade school, many of us were taught to think of Christopher Columbus as a valiant explorer of the New World, a narrative that overlooks his flagrant abuses of power and his decimation of...
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Fragmented Identity Through the Eyes of Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Cleavage at Arcade Project Curatorial, the artist’s first solo show in NYC, pondered how one can hold an identity alongside a shifting sense of home.
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Scan These Artworks and They Will Come to Life
Visitors to two Chinatown parks in New York can scan colorful banners that turn into lively animations about Chinese heritage and immigrant narratives.
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Play Dress-Up at the Met Museum With New AR App
Using the Replica app, users can track down artworks at the museum and turn them into digitized wearable items, like a Van Gogh straw hat and a Corinthian warrior helmet.
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