augmented reality heritage artwork by Luciana Haill
“The real no longer exists –
it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
it is its own pure simulacrum…
It plays at being an appearance – it is of the order of sorcery…
It is no longer of the order of appearances, but of simulation. “
The real no longer exists – it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
it is its own pure simulacrum. It plays at being an appearance. It is of the order of sorcery…It is no longer of the order of appearances, but of simulation. #AugmentedReality the new souvenir of the past pic.twitter.com/NuOGz1gkkc— St Victoriana (@St_Victoriana) March 6, 2019
‘when the map has come to precede the territory’
Hyperreality is the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced societies. This video experiment expresses Baudrillard’s description here : “There is not only an implosion of the message in the medium, there is, in the same movement, the implosion of the medium itself in the real, the implosion of the medium and of the real in a sort of hyperreal nebula, in which even the definition and distinct action of the medium can no longer be determined”.
The persistence of a poodle in mixed reality still life, as an Apparition we made in ‘Unity3d’ materialises digitally : the Victorian clocktower of Hastings is conjured in strobe light and manifested shuddering like a phantom as my dog gazed through the whole experiment!
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I first used glass cloches for display in my work ‘SleepCycles‘ in Technology is Not Neutral in Brighton, 2016. Burning candles atop each dome for set numbers of hours expressed each one as a different stage of sleep. So the wax-dripped dome shown here is a particularly narrow and tall model that suits containment of the clocktower, if such a public landmark could be put into a protective bubble. Today I explored how to trigger the AR from outside the glass, with different strong natural lighting effects and with sound from the app and the immediate environment.
Mixed reality – the metal teapot survived the Bexhill Beach Huts storm, I can use something from Priory Meadow Cricket ground archives to be the significant enduring element for a new Apparition. This will happen and be distributed across the county for free if you help fund me – please share with organisations that will be interested in work exploring memory, nostalgia, heritage, technology in art.
www.gofundme.com/Priory-Meadow-Cricket-digital-heritage
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Delighted to be written about here by author Stephen Prince who introduced me to hauntology which then set me on a a path within Augmented reality, Art & historical convergence !
https://twitter.com/yearinthcountry/status/1092385202087841792?s=21
Luciana Haill’s Apparitions – A Modern-Day Conjuring of Phantasms and Peering Down the Corridors of Time: Wanderings 6/52https://t.co/9nBhtdetIl
“…these augmented reality landmarks are like ghosts which Smartphones can allow us to see…”@St_Victoriana @HastingsInPress pic.twitter.com/h1wxyN0Zkv
— AYearInTheCountry (@yearinthcountry) February 4, 2019
(Turn sound on ) One more screen capture of Apparitions – mixing reality of Hastings’ lost landmarks taken to India – triggering on iPad screen capture through ‘Recordit’, turn sound on to hear the ensemble of Sufi music playing over the AR triggered soundscape. The sounds I chose when making the app are encompassing its lifetime and space in Hastings, East Sussex, UK from 1862-1973. In this moment seagulls fly over and a 1920’s motor car drives past, we experience the clocktower’s chime and sounds overlaid on the peaceful Sufi music playing in the hotel gardens of Faluknama Palace, Hyderabad in India from augmented reality – Get the app free here : https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/apparitions-ar/id1431496591?mt=8
Thank you to everyone who came last night to Bexhill Heritage and everyone who’s taken part in any of the Apparitions events since 01.09.18 – I am still investigating an alternate technique to deliver the experience for Android phone users as well, and if you email – artist@apparitions.site and we will add you to the list to be notified when it is ready to download !
Many thanks
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Luciana Haill
Artist & Creative Director
Since I began this artwork the concept of hauntology which was new to me has heavily influence my creative output – I read first about it in Stephen Prince’s book ‘A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields: Journeys in Otherly Pastoralism, the Further Reaches of Folk and the Parallel Worlds’ and he told me was informed of Hauntology from the writer Mark Fisher’s whose books I am consuming – firstly ‘Ghosts of my Life : Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures’ & now ‘K-Punk’. Clearly all authors written routes are traced back to its origin from Derrida.
Hauntology – (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology[1]) is a concept coined by philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. The term refers to the situation of temporal, historical, and ontological disjunction in which the apparent presence of being is replaced by a deferred non-origin, represented by “the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present, nor absent, neither dead nor alive.”
If you view my work in augmented reality I would like you to keep this in mind
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