augmented reality heritage artwork by Luciana Haill
Let’s go to places that are not open, with people who are not alive anymore and with sculptures and architecture that may not exist much longer.
Come with me in 2024, new tours will be in the events section #hauntology #augmentedreality #digitalart #photogrammetry
2024
February 22nd, 4pm – local lost landmarks and augmented reality – (free)
Teddy Tinkers shop, 134 London Rd, Saint Leonards, TN37 6LT
Join us inside the shop ( arrive early as limited seating is available) for a heritage presentation and full demonstration of how to view 3 specific lost landmarks following the artist’s talk. Smartphones are not essential and special postcards are available to guests with all the instructions for downloading the free app that enables the experience
March 9th, 3pm – local lost landmarks and augmented reality – £3 tickets
The Bank Bar & Bistro, 28-29 Grand Parade, Saint Leonards, TN37 6DR
Tickets are £3 are available from eventbrite
Join us inside the spacious old Bank Bistro with drinks and cakes available to purchase, tickets ensure you are seated for the artist’s historical presentation followed by a guided augmented reality walk across the road opposite The Royal Victoria Hotel for the AR group demonstration. All ages are welcome, everyone can learn more history about the amazing pier of St Leonards that was demolished finally by 1951 but also experience a life-size version using the artwork on their smartphones.
March 30th, 2pm – The Pyramids of Victorian Death Culture in AR – £3 tickets
Meet outside The Highlands Inn, 1 Boscobel Rd, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 0LU
to view the pyramid and augmented reality experience
Tickets are £3 are available from eventbrite
St Leonards has its own Pyrmaid tomb in a garden cemetery, the artist first encountered this esoteric architecture when she lived near Burwash as Jack Fuller had also built a Pyramid for his tomb in 1834. These examples of wealth and status for all time hold fascination today for the modern tourist or local.
A 3D model in AR and video of the monument will be shared as the actual one is currently closed to the public for safety, due to subsistence of the area.
do join us, map of starting and end places will be added soon
06.10.23
‘No Hammer Needed‘, St Andrews Mews, Waldegrave st, TN34 1SJ, Hastings, East Sussex.
The long awaited Apparitions AR will launch with geotagged lifesize experiences of St Leonards Pier, The Memorial clocktower and the lost beach huts for iOS and Android devices, with a pop up exhibition in the black gallery. Alongside will be stroboscopic experiences and brainwave monitoring, for special events each friday.
The Daddy long legs sea faring train is called ‘Pioneer AR’ and this is one of two main heritage attractions using augmented reality in the exhibition next to Apparitions AR, alongside flickering nostalgic artworks made by Luciana Haill since 2012 using Dreamachines and strobes from Thursdays 5pm to Saturdays 10pm throughout October.
Check the show website for artist walks to the sites at weekends in Hastings.
24/09/2022 – Augmented Art drop in exhibition & symposium
Apparitions app and Pioneer are relaunching with new features and additional assets ( Prince Albert himself ) in this event on Saturday 24th September from 2pm – 9.30pm, held in Ugly Duck, 47-49 Tanner Street, Bermondsey. Free from 2-7pm then tickets for artist talk – information here :
This one-day exhibition showcases the cutting-edge augmented reality artworks of Luciana Haill and is the London premiere of Pioneer, an ambitious, augmented reality (AR) artwork which explores urgent contemporary themes around innovation, hubris and technology elitism through a reflection on Victorian engineering. The work juxtaposes Victorian engineer Magnus Volk’s unique seagoing electric train on stilts called ‘Pioneer’ (nicknamed ‘Daddy Long Legs’ (1896-1901) to contemporary mobile technologies such as augmented reality, 5G and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network.
Also, on show will be a newly updated version of Haill’s earlier series of augmented reality artworks entitled Apparitions, inspired by three Victorian landmarks lost in wars, storms and during rapid gentrification.
The artworks can be triggered using special apps and images or actually at the sites of lost heritage via geotagging. In the case of Pioneer, the AR artwork is geotagged in such a way that the seagoing train actually appears to travel along the original route of the tracks (between Brighton and Rottingdean) as you walk the coastal path.
The works are accompanied by immersive soundscapes which can be experienced using headphones or a wearable SUBPAC tactile audio system.
The artist, Luciana Haill will be present and happy to demonstrate the works and answer questions.
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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 build of Apparitions app coming in 2022 with extra experience ‘ The Pioneer ‘
for iOS and Android
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
GO travel magazine by Landon publications released this in print and online 
Apparitions