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encounter immersive soundscapes & 3D models of bygone heritage sites, triggered by combining vintage postcards with augmented reality, surrealism & historical narratives
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Memorial Clocktower in Hastings centre
So this was the moment England beat Sweden in the football .. a couple of fleeting apparitions !
St Leonards pier : 1891-1939
Apparitions – its an artwork thats also an app : bringing back the bygone!
3D animation of St Leonards Pier
Heres a 600 000 polygon quick look of the accurately measured and scaled St Leonards Pier from approx 1905 era
Wow – its really getting tangible !
Ok great weather = great lighting, so I took my artwork onto the balcony, the teacups are vintage, the flowers smell real, but to anyone else, I must look like I am taking photos of the flag stones…. the apparition is only visible through my phone !
Bringing back the Bygone
The Hastings Observer newspaper has kindly mentioned my artwork Apparitions. Using ‘Augmented Reality’ on their smartphones, the audience are taken back in time with models and soundscapes encapsulating the life span of missing heritage gems in the local area ; St Leonards Pier and Clocktower Memorial.
www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/technology-helps-to-bring-back-a-hastings-landmark-1-8540752
Two dates for the diary -19.09.18 and 22.09.18 when you can experience it without knowing how or why, or owning a smartphone. We will show you how and enlighten you with the history, technology and interactive art engagements at The Azur luncheon and free drop in event in Hastings museum.
AR Art
Exploring the decay & changing nature of a seaside town now facing gentrification & associated social & cultural conflicts in a series of artworks where just a trace remains in St Leonards & Hastings. The audience is everyone with a mobile phones to view the augmented reality (AR) recreations & historical narratives, I will make ‘british ghosts walk in public.’
I can trigger missing Victorian architecture resurrecting them as 3D models attached to soundscapes with embedded stories triggered by vintage postcards & GPS locations of demolished sites : St Leonards pier & The Memorial Clocktower
Image triggering experience
You hold a postcard. The old metal teapot bobs towards you. You get a sense of itself & its past. The only survivor from a storm that swept all the beach huts out to sea.
Spectral Apparitions, 3D models of sites that did not survive : St Leonards Pier & The Clocktower Memorial
rare photo of St Leonards Pier
Now imagine what the sound would be like out here.. Doppler effect of music, laughter, a zoo (!), skating, bands, sea birds, waves, quiescence
Apparitions at The Azur
I took the ‘Apparitions‘ proof of concept basic model of The Memorial ( clocktower 1864-1974 ) to Lord Brett’s luncheon club where the guests explored it on iPhone and iPad, sometimes the AR appears at weird tangents and inappropriate places, adding to the surreal exploration. Lots of interesting questions from the guests are leading my research this week with my assistant Callum Sulsh.
I will be returning in September to the luncheon at The Azur in St Leonards, dates tbc.
