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Fig. 13.10
Non-Local: Cosmic Constant MRPG
by Nathan Shafer (
2013
), AR with audio at
Noxious Sector Projects, Seattle, Washington, pictured is an installation shot of the show where
maps of the POIs were displayed (Photo: Ted Heibert)
13.9
Praxis
The
Augmented Inuksuit Project
(Fig.
13.14
) is a K-12 education based collaborative
AR work in Alaska, I initiated in 2012. Inuksuit is the plural form of
inuksuk
,
which are stone landmarks used by the Inuit across the circumpolar north. Inuksuit
demarcated portions of the wilderness for human use, i.e. good caribou hunting
or summer fish camps. With students we built collaborative inuksuit, using toy-
style blocks we built in an open-source 3D modeling program—these blocks made
a set, from which were built class inuksuit. Inuksuit are reflexive objects in an
artistic application towards an anamnesis of the wilderness, which position the
social wilderness in the literal, and are viscous difference engines in Arctic art
history.
The variety and application of these objects inside of the microhabitat of AR,
inside the larger media ecosystem, illustrate some of the praxis of augmenting
wilderness—their usage entangled with OOO, working to decentralize the human
mind as the metaphysical fulcrum upon which the existence of the cosmos hinges,
making way for the equanimity for the wilderness outside of our infinitesimal pocket
of the universe.
