The Flower Matrix by Claudia Hart

For her wallpaper, Claudia Hart creates patterns that are also computer codes – augmented “tags” functioning like QR – that permit users, via a custom-designed augmented reality app called “The Looking Glass,” to see fantastical embedded animations. By downloading a free Layar app off the Internet, anyone can look through Alice in Wonderland’s “looking glass” on their smart device to glimpse pulsing invisible flowers harvested from the Flower Matrix. Hart’s wallpapers are covered with animated graphics culled from Internet signage, computer codes, and emoji graphics. Programmed by the artist, her multimedia designs are metaphors that unfold, using computer vision to reveal “magical” layers of new information.