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Fig. 17.2
People's Park in Bloomington Indiana during the art exhibition, arOCCUPY May Day
2013. Many of the people gathered to the left side of the park when they saw a stranger in the park
walking around pointing an iPad. As a result, the benches and tables on the right side of the park
are empty. The upheaval in the air can be seen literally, figuratively and virtually with the hovering
AR objects
States as well as across the world in such cities as Sydney, Australia, Brasilia, Brazil
and Hammam Sousse, Tunisia in Africa. The exhibition reached as far as Shanghai
and a photo was smuggled out of China in support (see Fig.
17.3
)(Skwarek
2012
).
Lenin is being reintroduced to a new generation of social activists (Žižek
2002
,
2004
; Kellogg
2014
) through reprints of his critical writings composed from the
overthrow of the tsar. The choice of using the image of Lenin on the arHEART
is motivated by a Ukrainian heritage. The Ukrainians were an independent nation
in 1917 that was invaded by Lenin's Red Army. By 1921, Lenin began to give
the Ukrainians back some of their independence by allowing a national revival
movement that celebrated their customs, language, arts, music, poetry and the
Ukrainian Orthodox religion. However, this was short lived when the Ukraine was
devastated in 1929 by Stalin who imprisoned and/or executed leading scholars,
scientists, cultural and religious leaders by falsely accusing them of armed revolt.
This was followed by the Holodomor, Stalin's forced extermination by hunger in
1932-1933. The arHEART at arOCCUPY MAY DAY is a testament to the strength
of heart of the Ukrainian people. The ephemerality of the arHEART is a pointer
to the extreme changes of heart that the Russian leaders demonstrated towards
