Parsons/New School - panel on augmented reality art

Saturday, September 7
6:30pm to 8:00pm

Parsons -The New School
Kellen Auditorium
66 5th Ave (12th Street) New York, NY 10011.


Something in the Air:
Artists talk about interventionist strategies in Augmented Reality Art

Please join us for a screening of artworks and a conversation between curators/editors Lanfranco Aceti and Pat Badani, Convenor Prof. Sven Travis, and “Manifest.AR” founding artists on the subject of Augmented Reality.

This emerging technology engages the public sphere in social and political critique by placing - in specific virtual spaces - artworks viewable through ubiquitous, smart mobile devices that integrate sensors, processors, access to networks, and visual/audio displays. The screening of AR works will promote a debate about this new type of mediation, as well as engage questions on the disruptive relevance of contemporary performance and site-specific interventions. The artists and curators will discuss the related aesthetic contributions, and furthermore question the political and social impact of the artworks in light of increasingly globalized socio-economic complexities.

The talk follows the publication of a seminal issue on Augmented Reality Art titled “Not Here Not There” Volume 1 and Volume 2, published by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, edited by Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart.

Vol.1: http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol19-no1-not-here-not-there/

Vol.2: http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol19-no2-not-here-not-there-part-2/


Speakers:

Sven Travis (Convenor)
Lanfranco Aceti
Pat Badani
John Craig Freeman
Will Pappenheimer
Mark Skwarek
Tamiko Thiel