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and grow. The beginning of an end. A revelation. An Apocalypse. “Neither the
modern disruption of traditional structures of value, nor the postmodern disruption
of modernist mythologizing; rather, it is the “literal realization of art”, a realization
which simultaneously requires the destruction of art as a separate category, as a
mirror to nature and life” (Murphy
1997
).
18.5
Conclusion
All of this is intended as a collection of tactics and approaches to be used
by contemporary artists working in the media of Augmented Reality seeking to
maximize the impact of their work, particularly those using systems that function
on commodity electronic devices such as smartphones. By a conservative estimate
there are over one billion smartphones in use in the world today (Bicheno
2012
).
This puts a previously unthinkable amount of computational power, sensors and
display systems into the hands and pockets of people from all walks of life all over
the world. There are now widely available platforms for the creation of interactive
art that escapes the boundaries of galleries and museums into the world in which
real human beings live and breathe. Simply recreating electronic versions of past
masterpieces or adding virtual bits and pieces on to the world like some sort of
virtual decorator isn't an effective use of the affordances of this new situation. By
seizing upon the opportunity to cut up the real world with virtual worlds, with make
believe, illusion, dream, ART we can break the bounds of our frames. Instead of
pulling bits of the real world onto virtual pedestals and signing them we can aim,
once again, for a miracle.
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