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effort. The event engaged the public on the ground as well as the social network.
The #arOCCUPY May Day was organized in sync with the OWS's May Day Arts
Council and Devotion Gallery located in Brooklyn, New York.
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Augmented Reality Environmental Activism
Nathan Shafer was one of the first activists to work on environmental issues with
AR. Shafer replaced parts of the environment that had disappeared during the last
century with mobile AR. One of Shafer's first works addressing environmental loss
was his work that brought back the aurora borealis to his hometown of Anchorage
Alaska (see Fig.
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). As part of the sun's cycle every 11 years it goes from a
Fig. 1.13
Nathan Shafer,
Borealises
, (2010) Full view (Images reproduced courtesy of the artist)
