Expose, Intervene, Occupy
Expose, Intervene, Occupy
"Expose, Intervene, Occupy: Re-interpreting Public Space"
update, Nov. 30, 2011
Numerous financial, political, social, and environmental challenges face us in this second decade of the 21st C. Members of the “Occupy” team plan to take up issues that impact us all using Augmented Reality (AR) for mobile devices in public spaces in Chicago’s loop. AR is a technology that includes virtual objects, text, and/or movies mapped onto real environments through the use of a camera-equipped mobile device. For example, see work created by ManifestAR for the Venice Biennial 2011 intervention: http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com/venice2011/
The level at which we have been funded will allow us to create a demonstration project including AR works by members of each participating collective (V1B3, unreal-estates, rootoftwo). One series of works will include excerpts from the occupy manifesto (http://www.selectsmart.com/DISCUSS/read.php?16,859709) mapped onto downtown bank buildings. Another series of works will look at the street as a venue for political action in an extension of the 2005 interactive installation “Preserving Disorder” (http://www.evl.uic.edu/drew/PresDis.50d.mov).
Yet another series will focus on environmental issues: possibilities, probabilities, and history. (see image of City Hall in 2075 – encroached upon by Kudzu, which will flourish in a future Chicago with a climate that will resemble Mobile, Ala.) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/science/earth/23adaptation.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Critical will be getting the word out about the project when we are ready to launch, and we are looking for ways to promote, announce, publicize. Web and print, of course; maps available in trifolds and/or post cards; sandwich board QR codes that link to an on-line map? Suggestions and help are welcome.
