Tag: Heritage

Tours

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Join me on this walking history tour viewing Pioneer (The Daddy Long Legs life-size in augmented reality), 1.5 hours and tickets from £6 – £10.

Next tour dates: July 12 and 26th (low tide rockpools Marina to Undercliff) meet up in Marina Village Green at 5.30pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-tide-walk-the-daddy-long-legs-rides-again-tickets-1349763893139

August 2nd, 16 and 30th (accessible – Banjo Groyne to Carwash in Asda) – starts at 3pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daddy-long-legs-rides-in-august-tickets-1445256905309

Daddy Long Legs souvenirs

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The Pioneer sea-faring train invented by Magnus Volk was affectionately known as ‘The Daddy Long Legs’ – my tours enable guests to visit inside the carriage and follow it along the original route it travelled through the sea on rails, from Kemptown to Rottingdean via Brighton Marina.

Join a tour in June and July 2025 (May dates for the Brighton Fringe festival are sold out)

Daddy Long Legs tour 2025
Tote bag – £12 on tour or £14 from my Etsy shop with free postage here
Screen print, limited edition of 40 hand-finished prints £20 on tour & from Etsy with free postage

May 25th 2025 a special trip to The Swan Pub & Hotel

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Andrea and Luciana will help you visit the demolished bombed inn, beginning at 1pm with a projected heritage talk inside ( host venue tbc) followed by a unique artist walk very nearby to the actual location of the bombed site where guests are able to see the building using augmented reality layers on their smartphones as part of the £6 ticket price. The effect is truly impressive and you also learn about 300 or more years of what took place inside the Swan Inn, and connect to a place in town in a new way with added experience.

links for tickets and information for venue starting with the talk at 1pm will be added soon

book tickets for guided walks & talks in March 2024

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Saturday March 9th, 3pm – local lost landmarks and augmented reality  – £3 tickets

The Bank Hotel & 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. 

Saturday March 30th, 2pm – The Pyramids of Victorian Death Culture in AR – £3 tickets
Meet outside Goodmans Barbers, 48 Marina, St Leonards where we begin a short walk 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 the subsistence of the area.

guided lost loved heritage walk with augmented reality from 3-5pm on 22.10.23

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do join us, map of starting and end places will be added soon

Augmented exhibition & symposium 24.09.22

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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.

Glitches and Ghosts abstract

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I am an artist fascinated by the relationship of history, new technologies, memory & dreams. In 2018 following a visit to the WWI concrete ‘Sound Mirrors’ in Denge Kent, I was inspired to combine my enquiry into emerging virtual digital techniques with lost Heritage, revealing other versions from postcards and the palimpsests. Elevating vintage postcards into digitally enabled missives that embed the past into the future is both described by Mark Fisher’s as ‘hauntological’ and influenced by Baudrillard – concerning simulation and the simulacrum.

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’ (AR) application that triggers hauntological ephemeral artworks of bygone public structures – St Leonards Pier (destroyed in WWII) & the Albert Memorial (lost to fire in 1973) as 3D models viewable triggered from special vintage postcards using smartphones. Called ‘Apparitions’, there are three experiences allowing travelling through time, creating a nostalgia for a future we cannot experience and each is accompanied by a soundscape encapsulating its lifetime. 

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). Until a paper by Psychiatrist Robert Butler challenged these views, coining 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 steganographic articles they offer several levels of engagement : uncanny bygone landscapes both real and imagined, self-selecting experiences and also include factual historical presences anchored in surreal soundtracks for each one .They are visual, sonic and metaphysical simulacra preserving social memory and lost heritage during rapid gentrification. 

I will present a twenty minute interactive Keynote at this conference in Lancaster University ( free to attend, registration essential ) on 17.04.19

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Apparitions : Hastings’ Victorian gothic clocktower in India : Augmented reality

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(turn sound on 😉 ) taking Hastings’ lost landmarks to India ! Realtime triggering of Apparitions AR (my free app) on an iPad – you are seeing the screen capture made through free software ‘Record it’ app, turn sound on to hear the ensemble of Sufi music playing over the AR triggered soundscape. The sounds I chose when making the app encompass its lifetime (1862-1973) & environmental space in Hastings, East Sussex, UK. In this moment during WWII a Messerschmitt Bf 110 plane flies over, we experience the clocktower and sounds overlaid on the peaceful Sufi music that is actually being played live in the hotel gardens of Taj Faluknama Palace, Hyderabad in India from augmented reality

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Additional Apparitions

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Queen Victoria (born 24 May 1819) and Prince Albert her husband (born 26 August 1819) would both be 200 in 2019. This could be marked in Hastings by an exciting new free public experience that will continue for many years to come. The Clocktower Memorial was erected with public money to commemorate  Victoria’s beloved husband Prince Albert in 1862 in the town centre. The site chosen was where Victoria and Albert (then Prince and Princess of Wales) were addressed by the fishermen of the town in June 1882. This site was originally where the Priory Bridge crossed the Priory Stream. And now it is preserved as an Augmented Reality artwork which anyone with a smartphone can view (and hear) when they pass through town.

You can download and start experiencing Apparitions right now if you are an iOS (Apple) user – iPad or iPhone.. of course we realise the demand for an identical Android version and that’s exactly what we are working on for 2019.

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The Clocktower was demolished in 1973 and a mainly pedestrianised space remains with neither clock or any other method of  replacement memorial to this public funded sculpture. Prince Albert’s statue luckily was protected for 50 years and reappeared late in 2017 outside HBC town hall.

 

I propose ‘AR’ markers to trigger a select ‘Apparition’ using my app, once the additional costs for an identical build is achieved – so both Android and Apple Smartphones will enable the experience. The markers will need to be attached to bollards, railings or lampposts in the vicinity of each original location.

So far I have created models of :

The Clocktower Memorial

St Leonards Pier

Both of these have been identified as being in the HBC domain, so they would be able to choose a mounting place for small metal triggers, like laser engraved postcards with the instruction for location of free download for both platforms.

What I discovered was how missed the cricket ground is, and this was voted as the next missing landmark to be preserved and augmented in an ‘Apparition’. In the Priory Meadow there is a statue of a cricketer, and I propose the 3D cricket grounds and buildings appear from around this stature as the embedded trigger.

 

This would enable the lost landmarks to be experienced when visiting their original location. For a small extra cost 100,000 postcards could also be printed and available to collect from HBC tourist information, library, town hall and Stade which would enable anyone to download the app, and trigger the experience by viewing the postcard using their smartphone from wherever they are.

In order to support a further small arts council award I have Identified potential sponsors / activity partners who I will contact in January 2019 :

Jempsons

The Royal Victoria Hotel

Priory Meadow Shopping / Love Hastings

Hastings Borough Council, Hastings Museum

So, as well as The original Hastings Cricket ground I would also like to make an Apparition of St Leonards Church which has had to close due to subsidence and The Amsterdammer shipwreck which is only accessible a few times each year when the tide is significantly out.