seductiveGROTESQUE
Augmented Reality Installation
Viewers can interact with the virtual sculptures in three dimensions
using Augmented Reality for smartphone
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Part of this Project - The Virtual Statue "Their story lies at the bottom of the ocean" - was presented at:
Inside AR - Augmented Reality Conference. Munich, Germany. October 2013. 2nd Place in "Work of ARt", International Augmented Reality Art Competition |
The sculptures in Seductive GROTESQUE are contemporary reinterpretations of the allegorical sculpture tradition, re-imagined here in the form of virtual sculptures. In the allegorical work, abstract ideals and virtues are personified in the idealized body. Physical beauty itself stands for rarely attained virtues. The grotesque, on the other hand, brings the body back to earth, to the corporeal and visceral. Exaggerated faces distorted with emotion and grotesque blemishes on the skin of the figure – like bruises left by a rough hand – record history on the material and embed the drama of life on the body itself.
The sculptures and images in the Seductive GROTESQUE series are made using the same formal process associated with the making of actual sculptures, but they do not exist in physical form, they are computer-generated objects made visible as artificial photographs and brought into the 3rd dimension through Augmented Reality.
The digital forms coexist with the physical world in the installation and can be viewed as human size sculptures as well as small sculptures on pedestals. Using an Augmented Reality App on smartphone, viewers can interact with the virtual sculpture in the real space of the gallery. Like traditional sculptures, the figures exist in three dimensions, viewers can move around them to see them from any angle by pointing a smartphone to the sculpture base.
In the second part of the installation, the human sized figures are presented in large framed photographs (80” height).
The sculptures and images in the Seductive GROTESQUE series are made using the same formal process associated with the making of actual sculptures, but they do not exist in physical form, they are computer-generated objects made visible as artificial photographs and brought into the 3rd dimension through Augmented Reality.
The digital forms coexist with the physical world in the installation and can be viewed as human size sculptures as well as small sculptures on pedestals. Using an Augmented Reality App on smartphone, viewers can interact with the virtual sculpture in the real space of the gallery. Like traditional sculptures, the figures exist in three dimensions, viewers can move around them to see them from any angle by pointing a smartphone to the sculpture base.
In the second part of the installation, the human sized figures are presented in large framed photographs (80” height).
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