MERGING SPACES - Augmented Reality Sculpture
MERGING SPACES 1 MERGING SPACES 2 MERGING SPACES 3 MERGING SPACES 4
Rachel Clarke
May 1 - 31, 2015
A new sculpture will be revealed each week.
Download the free Junaio app to see what is hidden right in front of your eyes
click on a link below
THE ONLINE EXHIBITION - A new sculpture added each week
AUGMENTED REALITY SCULPTURE LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
PRESS RELEASE
When Another Year in LA began 2015, we decided that the gallery would be an online gallery exclusively. Subsequently, we have held several physical exhibitions in conjunction with the online shows each month. Each artist is now given the option to hold a physical show as well as online show and many have.
Rachel Clarke has chosen to only exhibit her virtual sculptures only online and given the nature of her upcoming first solo exhibition, MERGING SPACES, at Another Year in LA in May, 2015 - we agree with her choice.
From her statement, Clarke say, “MERGING SPACES combines physical and virtual modes of making, and through an augmented reality application it embodies virtual and physical ways of experiencing it. As a comment on extreme consumerism in our contemporary lifestyle, the ephemeral sculptures I create are comprised of the waste products of that lifestyle -- banal junk such as food packaging, advertising mailers, plastic bags -- as well as discarded digital information. Through physical and digital processes they become artworks that can be experienced as objects of contemplation, even beauty. This is my way of reclaiming the sense of agency and meaning that the hyper-capitalist global economic system has taken away from the individual.”
FIRST DOWNLOAD THE FREE JUNAIO APP BELOW
Instructions for how to see MERGING SPACES starting May 1 – one new image will be added each week
1. Download the free Junaio app from the App Store (MAC) or Google Play (Android).
2. Open Junaio and scan the QR code to load the channel.
3. The MergingSpaces1 channel will load onto your device (takes a few seconds).
4. Point your device at the image to view the virtual sculpture.
5. Experience the virtual sculpture by moving your mobile device around it.
LINKS TO THE MERGING SPACES EXHIBITION OF AUGMENTED REALITY SCULPTURE
SCAN THE QR CODE ON THE PAGE FOR EACH SCULPTURE BELOW:
MERGING SPACES 1 by Rachel Clarke
MERGING SPACES 2 by Rachel Clarke
MERGING SPACES 3 by Rachel Clarke
MERGING SPACES 4 by Rachel Clarke
Buy a limited edition print of any or all of the MERGING SPACES A.R. here
AUGMENTED REALITY
Augmented Reality is a way by which images, animations, videos and 3D sculptures are virtually installed into the physical environment through the screen of a viewer’s mobile device (smart phone or tablet).
When a viewer holds up their mobile device to a designated “tracking image” a virtually installed artwork pops out and appears to be integrated into the physical environment, “augmenting” reality. In this exhibition, virtual sculptures will pop out of images on the viewer’s computer screen, merging real and virtual objects and spaces.
While pointing the mobile device at the tracking image, the viewer can move around the virtual sculpture to fully experience its dimensionality and relationship to the real environment.
Instructions for getting the free app to see MERGING SPACES
BIO
Rachel Clarke is an artist living in Sacramento, CA. Her work – intertwining themes of nature, culture, and technology – has been shown in galleries, museums, new media art festivals and film screenings nationally and internationally.
She has recently shown at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA; WORK Detroit, MI; and Currents International Festival of New Media in Santa Fe, NM.
Clarke is the founding editor of Media-N, the CAA New Media Caucus’s international journal, and was Editor-in-Chief from 2005 – 2011.
In 2011 she co-curated an exhibition of experimental 3D filmmaking with artist Claudia Hart of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, entitled The Real-Fake: Simulation Technology after Photography, which toured in the US in 2012.
In fall 2014 Clarke worked in collaboration with Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission as artist/co-curator for an NEA funded augmented reality virtual public art project, Broadway Augmented.
She is Professor of New Media Art in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento.
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
MERGING
SPACES 1
(with custom app so you don't have to scan a QR code)
2015
18" X 24"
Edition of 20, signed & numbered in pencil by Rachel Clarke
$500 + shipping
MERGING SPACES 2
(with custom app so you don't have to scan a QR code)
2015
18" X 24"
Edition of 20, signed & numbered in pencil by Rachel Clarke
$500 + shipping
MERGING SPACES 3
(with custom app so you don't have to scan a QR code)
2015
18" X 24"
Edition of 20, signed & numbered in pencil by Rachel Clarke
$500 + shipping
MERGING SPACES 4
(with custom app so you don't have to scan a QR code)
2015
18" X 24"
Edition of 20, signed & numbered in pencil by Rachel Clarke
$500 + shipping
Deluxe Edition of all four prints - MERGING SPACE 1, 2, 3 & 4, ed. of 20 - $1,200 + free shipping