augmented reality heritage artwork by Luciana Haill
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 !
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.
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
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
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.
The new app for smartphones will be live from 01.09.18 for everyone to download from this site, it will enable people to experience the soundscapes and 3D models of both sites and allow themselves to be transported back to surreal moments in local history.
The trigger image are vintage postcards of these sites, and eventually GPS – location based triggering once we fully understand the accessibility of art through sharing some data about their current location especially with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws.
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Heritage of Hastings & St Leonards in AR : preservation in augmented reality application for smart phones Android and iPhone ( free download in 2018 )
Also known as The Palace Pier and renamed the The New Palace Pier
This image will have embedded AR code for triggering a 3D model
This is Beta testing stage currently
Apparitions