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Fig. 7.2
A digital print from
From Closed Rooms, Soft
Whispers
, which serves as an
anchor for the augmented
reality assets hosted on a
central server
receivers of the perlocutionary actions enacted by the piece. Augmented reality
artworks, situated as pieces re-contextualizing the perceptions of the viewers
through intermediary devices, further show themselves as challenges - in the
perception of the viewer if not in actuality - to not only the fourth wall of audience
passivity, but to the borders and accepted limits of interaction. They accomplish
this by translocating those borders into the more numinous virtual world, whose
affordances provide a bewildering array of compelling expressions to artists. But
although in content they partake of the digital, there is always an element of the
physical to augmented reality artwork, something to tie it to the viewer and their
embodied experience of the piece. In this way the borders are still very much so
present, the affordances and proscriptions built into the very code of the work.
Yet the ability to customize those boundaries, to draw one's own curatorial borders
and parameters, is in itself a freedom drawing from augmented reality's strengths,
inviting a model of the world as not one in which art happens, but one which is
conditionally defined and experienced as an integrative work of art.
