Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos is an augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated to the thousands of migrant workers who have died along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years trying to cross the southwestern desert in search of work and a better life. Read more.

Abstract
A large section of the cultural heritage sector not usually thought of as Cultural Heritage is the contemporary and temporary art galleries and spaces. Many such institutions do not have traditional collection mechanisms nor permanent artefacts and exhibitions, but rather a rolling programme constantly in flux. This represents a new challenge in terms of a systemised approach to learning and public engagement strategies, but also offers an opportunity to propose new learning and engagement mechanisms through the prism of its one unique selling point– the artistic creative engagement of artists and art practitioners. This paper examines the potential of Augmented Reality for the museum and gallery visiting experience focusing particularly on the ways through which AR as an emerging technology may inform emerging art practices all by encouraging public participation and engagement with art.

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Artists John Craig Freeman and Will Pappenheimer created this augmented reality artwork to recreate the spirit of a 1929 Film und Foto (“FiFo”) exhibition in Stuttgart for which Hans Richter served as film curator. Featured in the augmented reality is a re-imaging of the FiFo Russian Room designed by El Lissitzky (along with his wife, Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers) where a selection of Russian photographs, film stills and actual film footage was presented.

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Hans Richter – Major Retrospective At LACMA, ikono.

Revisiting the FiFo Russian Room in Augmented Reality, LACMA Blog.

In Window Zoos & Views – an exhibition of augmented reality public artwork that’s part of Digital Art Weeks in May – John Craig Freeman uses technology to remind us of the horrible past and warn us of the earth’s scary future. Gwen Pew talks to the Boston-based artist.

Flotsam & Jetsam, by John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art, Singapore, 2013.

Window Zoos & Views is an exhibition of augmented reality public artwork that’s part of Digital Art Weeks, an event founded in Zurich, Switzerland, six years ago and debuting in Singapore for the first time. One of the featured artists is Boston-based John Craig Freeman, 54, who has participated in three other DAW, and is showing two works. One of them, ‘Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands’, displays black-and-white footages of historic mass uprisings, in the most unlikely venue: Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park. The other one, ‘Flotsam & Jetsam’, gives us a peek into the future when the sea level rises due to global warming: hover your tablet or phone at precise GPS coordinates along the entire length of Orchard Road or from Hill Street to Outram Park Station, and you will see shipping containers, boat wrecks, driftwood and plastic refuse superimposed over the terrain.

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“Weathering Art,” an exhibition of contemporary art addressing global climate change at 119 Gallery in Lowell Massachusetts.

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John Craig Freeman • Friday, April 19, 12-2pm, CFA 136:

John Craig Freeman is a public artist with over twenty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities.

In the spirit the “hypermedia installations” curated by Xavier Perrot that were features of earlier ICHIM events, MWX2013 presents a “prototype” exhibit focusing upon Augmented Reality. Museums and the Web‘s exhibition initiative is curated by Vince Dziekan, and our inaugural exhibition features works by John Craig Freeman, Future of Reality and Will Pappenheimer that emphasise how the innovative potentials of AR can be used for tactical intervention.

The curatorial strategy for MWX2013 adopts an “interventionist” approach, inspired by how the work of these contemporary new media artists harnesses the potential of AR to create artworks with a deceptively playful, yet critical edge. The resulting exhibition is “blended” into the main program of MW2013 in Portland in a manner that we hope will both surprise and engage delegates.

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Flotsam & Jetsam is a virtual meta-comentary on global warming, expected sea level rise and the spread of plastic debris field gyres.

Flotsam & Jetsam, by John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art, Singapore, 2013.

Produced in association with “Window Zoos & Views,” an exhibition of augmented reality public artwork during the Digital Art Weeks International, Singapore, 2013 and “Weathering Art,” an exhibition of contemporary art addressing global climate change at 119 Gallery in Lowell Massachusetts.

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Digital Arts Weeks, TimeOut Singapore.

Interview: John Craig Freeman, TimeOut Singapore.

Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands, is based on the work of Gustav Gustavovich Klucis, including his designs for Screen-radio Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands from 1922.

In Singapore, Speakers’ Corner is an area located within Hong Lim Park where people can demonstrate, hold exhibitions and performances, and speak freely on most topics.

Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands, by John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art, Singapore, 2013.

Produced in association with “Window Zoos & Views,” an exhibition of augmented reality public artwork during the Digital Art Weeks International, Singapore, 2013.

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Digital Arts Weeks, TimeOut Singapore.

Interview: John Craig Freeman, TimeOut Singapore.

When: April 4th, 2013 at 2:00 pm

Where: LASALLE College of Art, 1 McNally Street, Singapore, Block F, Room F208

In association with Digital Art Weeks International, Singapore, 2013.