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Fig. 13.6
Borealises III by
Nathan Shafer and the Virtual
Public Art Project (
2011
),
digital/animated AR version
of the northern lights,
displayed above viewers, this
screen grab comes from the
first Wintermoot Festival in
Anchorage, Alaska from
2010 (Photo: Jared Chandler)
V1b3 works with the printed word in many of their projects, as well as the
integration of projected video in the immediate media ecosystem.
NEWzzzzz
was
able to blend these two formats into a mobile application, which illustrated cultural
feeds, exterior to most viewers' expectations of them, the same issue of the 'VR
pipe dreams'.
Several artists in Manifest.AR have made relative AR works, Tamiko Thiel's
Reign of Gold
(Fig.
13.9
) illustrates the way the global economy occupies every
centimeter of our world, for example.
Non-Local
(Fig.
13.10
) is an on-going digital storytelling project of mine, set in
a near-future Anchorage and based on the storytelling traditions of the circumpolar
north, mixed with pulp science fiction and online gaming. The project is a series
of short digital stories that group together as a larger narrative. In early 2013,
Non-
Local
went up simultaneously in three geolayers on the Layar app in Anchorage,
Seattle and Skidegate; and one target-based layer on the Junaio app in New York.
