Augmented Reality Art Installations 2022

What Paintings Do When No One's Looking

Glitched

Orange Man

Giant Hands

Day's Not Over Yet

A series of Augmented Reality Art Installations over the Hudson River inside David Hammons’ Day's End.

Day's Not Over Yet East River

Augmented Reality Art Installations in Manhattan

A series of experiments and the development of ideas in various spaces in the city.

Statement

Digital Constructs over Mega Constructs, a series of Mixed reality Constructs.

A series of Augmented Reality Art Installations drawing on Mirena Rhee’s video game 3D work and created in 2022 on various locations around New York City. Developed as an Augmented Reality app for an Android phone where 3D generated imagery is superimposed and manipulated in real-time over various New York City locations. Interaction is recorded in real-time by screen capture software on the Android phone. The 3D digitally generated work is a mix of per-defined animation and real-time physics simulation. The app was created with Unity 3D, AR Foundation, Maya and Adobe software. The app was created in 3D and coded entirely by the artist.

The app interacts with the real-life New York City locations, detects surfaces and keeps track of the spatial relationships in real-time between the 3d generated images, the phone and the real-life setting.

In these works, I merge New York City scenes and real-time digitally generated 3D bodies into a synthesized “augmented” reality that exists only in the space of the user’s phone.

The 3D work is a combination of animation and real-time simulation.

The reality of consumer culture brands is that consumer objects are turned into larger than life constructs via logos, outsized imagery and branded stores almost like temples of worship.

I also really liked turning the uber constructs of New York City like 100-story skyscrapers into Lego-like backgrounds overwhelmed by giant hands.