Invisible waves and hidden realms: augmented reality and experimental art

Silvia Ruzanka

doi:10.1117/12.908447

8 February 2012 Invisible waves and hidden realms: augmented reality and experimental art

Silvia Ruzanka

Proceedings Volume 8289, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2012; 82890E (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908447
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

Augmented reality is way of both altering the visible and revealing the invisible. It offers new opportunities for artistic exploration through virtual interventions in real space. In this paper, the author describes the implementation of two art installations using different AR technologies, one using optical marker tracking on mobile devices and one integrating stereoscopic projections into the physical environment. The first artwork, De Ondas y Abejas (The Waves and the Bees), is based on the widely publicized (but unproven) hypothesis of a link between cellphone radiation and the phenomenon of bee colony collapse disorder. Using an Android tablet, viewers search out small fiducial markers in the shape of electromagnetic waves hidden throughout the gallery, which reveal swarms of bees scattered on the floor. The piece also creates a generative soundscape based on electromagnetic fields. The second artwork, Urban Fauna, is a series of animations in which features of the urban landscape become plants and animals. Surveillance cameras become flocks of birds while miniature cellphone towers, lampposts, and telephone poles grow like small seedlings in time-lapse animation. The animations are presented as small stereoscopic projections, integrated into the physical space of the gallery. These two pieces explore the relationship between nature and technology through the visualization of invisible forces and hidden alternate realities.

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Silvia Ruzanka "Invisible waves and hidden realms: augmented reality and experimental art", Proc. SPIE 8289, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2012, 82890E (8 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908447

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