Conference paper
Mobile Augmented Reality Art and the politics of re-assembly
Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp.458-463
International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), 21st (Vancouver, Canada, 14-Aug-2015–19-Aug-2015)
ISEA International
2015
Abstract
Experimental art deployed in the Augmented Reality (AR) medium is contributing to a reconfiguration of traditional perceptions of interface, audience participation, and perceptual experience. Artists, critical engineers, and programmers, have developed AR in an experimental topology that diverges from both industrial and commercial uses of the medium. In a general technical sense, AR is considered as primarily an information overlay, a datafied window that situates virtual information in the physical world. In contradistinction, AR as experimental art practice activates critical inquiry, collective participation, and multimodal perception. As an emergent hybrid form that challenges and extends already established 'fine art' categories, augmented reality art deployed on Portable Media Devices (PMD’s) such as tablets & smartphones fundamentally eschews models found in the conventional 'art world.' It should not, however, be considered as inscribing a new 'model:' rather, this paper posits that the unique hybrids advanced by mobile augmented reality art also known as AR(t) are closely related to the notion of the 'machinic assemblage' ( Deleuze & Guattari 1987), where a deep capacity to reassemble marks each new art event. This paper develops a new formulation, the 'software assemblage,’ to explore some of the unique mixed reality situations that AR(t) has set in motion.
Details
- Title
- Mobile Augmented Reality Art and the politics of re-assembly
- Authors
- Rewa Wright (Author) - UNSW Sydney
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp.458-463
- Conference details
- International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), 21st (Vancouver, Canada, 14-Aug-2015–19-Aug-2015)
- Publisher
- ISEA International
- Date published
- 2015
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99679195702621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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