Day's Not Over Yet Augmented Reality

In the summer of 2022 I created a series of Day's Not Over Yet Augmented Reality Art Installations over the Hudson River and East River in New York City. They are inspired by the installation Day's End by David Hammons. Over the Hudson I created an installation within the installation, and then another series overlooking Manhattan in Williamsburg.

Day's Not Over Yet Augmented Reality Giant Hands Art Installation over Williamsburg Pier at the East River.

I created these series of Augmented Reality Art Installations using Maya and Unity 3D with AR foundation. Developed an app that runs on Android phones where the user places art objects on real surfaces in real time. I will soon post a completed app that will run on supported Android devices. Apple devices are currently supporting very interesting and sophisticated features and it is possible I will develop the apps for Apple devices in the future. Apple devices feature human occlusion so when people walk in the real space they are able to walk “in front of” or ”behind” the art.

In these works, I explore the overlap of constructed reality + digitally contrived reality = synthesized virtual reality which exist only in the space of the user’s phone. A private reality of the artist due to its digitalness can become a shared reality. Does art still exist when no one observes it?

I have always been fascinated with digital landscapes, entirely artificial ephemeral constructs which I used to inhabit as a commercial video games artist for many years. What is even more fascinating is the overlap of digital constructs over the megalopolis reality of New York City. In these series I combine and develop these two obsessions.

The installations use the uber constructs of hyper capitalism like skyscrapers and make them the two-dimensional background of the work. Megamillion skyscrapers shrink and recede like tilt-camera filmed dollhouses of the Lego city. Augmented Reality seems real and the Cityscape fake.

I use the uber constructs of hyper capitalism like  skyscrapers and make them two-dimensional background of my art, they are the doll houses of the Lego city. Augmented Reality seems real and the Cityscape fake.

Day’s Not Over Yet Augmented Reality Art Installation with Giant Hands over the Hudson River inside David Hammons's Day's End.

Created a virtual set in real time inside the virtual stage Day’s End by David Hammons. An installation within the installation.