영상 (Yeongsang) is a site-responsive Augmented Reality (AR) installation. The title is a polysemous Korean word that can be translated variously as image/video/reflection. The installation comprises a custom iOS app paired with a 360º camera housed in a custom wooden sculpture, with a digital trigger image etched into the side. The audience views the world through their phone camera, and the app augments the visual world with a pulsating reflective mirror-like sphere. The video stream from the camera is textured onto this sphere, creating the impression of a mirror. A wind sensor effects the texturing creating a rippling effect when the wind picks up.
YeongSang addresses the issue of site responsiveness in AR. Whilst early proponents of AR championed its potential for “transforming space to place” (Jin 2016:21), there typically is a disconnect between the digital overlay and the physical reality of the space being augmented (Young & Marshall 2023). By literally reflecting the physical world from around, and harnessing real-time wind data, YeongSang realises the goal of AR to “interact with, rather than obscure, our situated context” (Young & Marshall 2023:2).