
Launch of new geo-tagged augmented reality artwork ‘Pioneer’ 07.11.21 in Brighton

augmented reality heritage artwork by Luciana Haill
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In 2018 I launched Apparitions with a special smartphone app for iOS and 3 bygone experiences. Now I have a new addition – the artwork ‘Pioneer’ has been awarded a grant from @ace_national. I will be able to update Apparitions_AR for Android and Apple smartphones adding this latest bygone model and will launch it at @DigitalBrighton in October 2021. It is an ambitious, outdoor, augmented reality artwork exploring urgent contemporary themes around innovation, hubris & technology elitism #AR#Art
New funding from The Arts Council received to create ‘Pioneer’ a new apparition bringing Magnus Volk’s seafaring train to life with electrical magic. The new updated app will run on both phone platforms, and be distributed / downloaded for free.
In my series of artwork Apparitions from 2018 (follow on instagram @apparitions_art) I showed how traditional looking postcards can be markers to trigger an Augmented experience. Now I am funded to make my next version which is ‘Pioneer’ about Volks Rail ‘Daddy Long legs’ seafaring train from late C19..I wish to release a commercial item listed on Discogs with an extra level of encoding sound, AR and vintage images – so I will release a new audio made with Junglis Monk & @vj_tokengirl in a limited edition vinyl postcard. Here I demonstrate the technics virtual player to my hero Mark Fisher. #Vinylpostcards
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Abstract:
A visit to the concrete ‘Sound Mirrors’ in Denge Kent inspired me to combine my enquiry into emerging virtual digital techniques with obsolete & lost heritage as I am an artist fascinated by the relationship of history, new technologies, memory & dreams. These spectacular remnants of a dead-end technology from WWI would tell more of a story if combined with augmented reality.
Funded by a ‘Grantium’ from The Arts Council of England (focussing on my hometown of Hastings & St Leonards) I designed and produced an ‘augmented reality(1)’ (AR) application called ‘Apparitions’. It triggers spectral artworks – 3d models with anachronistic soundscapes when viewing special vintage postcards of the sites using smartphone cameras. Digitally Elevating traditional souvenirs of obsolete sites into steganographic missives, described by Mark Fisher’s as ‘hauntological(2),’ embedding the past into the future so it may be interrogated as a simulation and a simulacrum(3).
There are three experiences allowing a glitching, time travel, potentially creating a nostalgia for a future we cannot experience and each is accompanied by a soundscape encapsulating its lifetime: St Leonards Pier (destroyed in WWII) & the Albert Memorial (lost to fire in 1973) and Edwardian beach huts (destroyed by storms 1907).
Until the 1960s the act of looking back, or nostalgic reminiscing was seen by the medical profession as a pathological aspect of ageing (causing or exacerbating depression & disengagement from everyday life). American Psychiatrist Robert Butler challenged these views popularised the term ‘Ageism.’ The platform of ‘AR’ enables me to exploit this and deliver an expandable series of artworks in a significant exploration of the impact of cutting edge ‘augmented reality’ technologies on memory & nostalgia.
As contemporary degrading or invisible urban palimpsests, they offer several levels of engagement: uncanny bygone landscapes both real and imagined, self-selecting experiences that also include factual historical presences anchored in surreal soundtracks. Apparitions are visual, sonic and metaphysical, their role as artworks is also to preserve and share social memory and lost heritage as simulacra during rapid gentrification.
Hello everyone – The HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS SOCIETY have rescheduled the event in the piano room ( left at reception) of The White Rock Hotel, 10th June 2019, free to attend, membership available also,
SORRY – just received this news : hope to have a new date soon
Please note that due to circumstances beyond our control, the open meeting tonight, Monday 13th May is cancelled.
Our apologies to all.
We will reschedule the meeting in the next few days.
Hastings and St. Leonards Society
I will show #Apparitions_AR revealing iconic lost #Hastings landmarks through #AR #postcards at the Open Meeting of the historical Hastings and St Leonards Society on Monday 13th May between 6-8pm in @whiterockhotel , there are three speakers https://t.co/YVOOY3q40E r #Art #MixedReality pic.twitter.com/BZV7KhHm4v
— St Victoriana (@St_Victoriana) May 5, 2019