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GEO-LOCATED AUGMENTED REALITY STORYTELLING

The recent massive spread of a Google concept-video announcing their augmented reality (AR) glasses, is a sign that people across the world are curious to experience the next step in augmented reality. Expectations are high - but there's criticism too. Do we really want to immerse ourselves 24/7 in a commercially annotated semi-virtual world? No. And we don't need to. First of all, we have the choice to switch off. Second, we will have a choice in content, hopefully. Let's hope that beside an overload of commercial content, our virtual surroundings will be packed with an equal amount of inspiring, meaningful or artistic creations. Within this current context, it is a great opportunity to be involved in the ArteMov/NIMk residency working on exactly that: exploring opportunities of AR content creation, taking into account the unique characteristics of this expanding parallel universe. read more >

Artist biographies: Sander Veenhof & VJ Pixel