Augmenting Wilderness: Points of Interest in Pre-connected Worlds - Augmented Reality Art - page 218

Fig. 13.7 NEWzzzzz by Gail
Rubini and Conrad Gleber
( 2013 ), AR (Photo: Nathan
Shafer)
The geolayers were part of a solo show at Noxious Sector in Seattle (Fig. 13.11 ).
They all have a global filter, so the audio tracks could be heard from anywhere
in the world, without having to see the local POI in person. Many of the POIs in
Non-Local are placed in pre-connected worlds, and accessible only with the global
filter running. They cannot be seen onsite, unless portable Wi-Fi is brought into the
ecosystem, it was a way of attempting to make the wilderness accessible from a
connected world.
The Non-Local augment that went up in New York was a singular audio track
called The Big Bad Broo , which told the story of two kids who stumble onto a
massive alien civilization via a confused avatar in a fictional MRPG called Cosmic
Constant. The group show it was included in was by the v1b3 collective with
Christopher Manzione, called AR2View . They took photos in a Manhattan hotel,
turned the photos into targets, on which they built an AR show, brilliantly illustrating
the way AR (from the aesthetic dimension) can literally lay over objects in the real
world. They published this topic with the target-photos, and descriptions of the