… an augmented-reality chapbook.
Like a digital pop-up book,
you hold the words in your hands.

written by Amaranth Borsuk and programmed by Brad Bouse

Enghien
Audiovisual performance, June 2009
Bains Numériques Festival – France

urbanscreen.com


whn the train first came thru the filmscreen
the audience ran

now they stroll glance stroll
as buildings palpitate

habituated nerves
taut over networks

ubiquitous video
may kill ocular wonder

“The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.”


“… a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance.” – Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab


“Workspace Unlimited organzation, founded by Thomas Soetens [new media artist] and Kora Van den Bulcke [architect], is a mobile laboratory and creation space dedicated to experimental new media production and research, situated at the point where art, architecture and digital technologies converge to create new contexts of hybrid and augmented reality. “

“The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.”


levelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver.

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.

“Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art.” — Aimee Mullins

Surveillance technology is getting smarter | If looks could kill | The Economist

“micro-facial leakage”


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Rilke’s face is here again
not just left in the hands
but porous and networked

Delicate Boundaries

“Delicate Boundaries imagines a space in which the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light, crawl out of the computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them. The system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them.”