Conference paper
From the Bleeding Edge of the Network: Augmented Reality and the ‘Software Assemblage’
Post-Screen: Device, Medium and Concept, pp.52-62
International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal, 28-Nov-2014 - 29-Nov-2014)
University of Lisbon
2014
Abstract
Art deployed using the augmented reality medium is doing so from a micropolitics that distances itself from the uses of these same technologies elsewhere, such as in gaming, advertising, or entertainment paradigms. However, the current terms used to describe this type of artwork do not adequately engage the relational and material specificities of the AR medium as it collides with an emergent thread of interventionist, activist and/or narrative art practice. To describe this emergent hybrid situational artwork, this paper proposes the term software assemblage. The augmented reality artworks I will describe as software assemblages, mobilise experimental processes to examine the relational intensities emerging between the AR medium, the ubiquitous devices with which we have become intimate, and our human social assemblages, specifically in this early 21st century capitalist milieu.
Details
- Title
- From the Bleeding Edge of the Network: Augmented Reality and the ‘Software Assemblage’
- Authors
- Rewa Wright (Author) - UNSW Sydney
- Publication details
- Post-Screen: Device, Medium and Concept, pp.52-62
- Conference details
- International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, 2014 (Lisbon, Portugal, 28-Nov-2014 - 29-Nov-2014)
- Publisher
- University of Lisbon
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99679195602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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