I’ve spent the last six weeks or so augmenting over as many different advertising images in Brisbane that I could find, which has been heaps of fun to do. It’s interesting once you get in the mindset of looking at advertising everywhere you go: some of it just makes no sense whatsoever, some of it is just really bad, … Read More
New Website: No Bodies Perfekt (spelling intentional)
I’ve been rapidly ramping up my augmented reality project, which now has it’s own website at: nobodiesperfekt.com The goal will be to augment as many advertising spaces as possible some time in the near future and see what happens.
Conference: CreateWorld 2017 Presentation
I’ll be presenting a conference paper Repurposing Augmented Reality Browsers for Acts of Creative Subversion at this years Apple University Consortium (AUC) CreateWorld Conference. It’s all about my initial experiments figuring out how to use Augmented Reality as an activist tool. I’ll be talking a little bit about my failures too, including the above video! I ambitiously tried to augment the … Read More
Bikeway at Risk: Augmented Reality protest
Bikeway at Risk 2017 A fun little Augmented Reality experiment this morning, adding a Monty Python-esque detail to the construction cladding for Queens Wharf. The animated tongue exclaims ‘BIKEWAY AT RISK’. The Bicentennial Bikeway is the busiest active transport route in all of Queensland with 6500 people using it every day (including me!). One of the many problems with the new … Read More
Exhibition: Project Passion 2017
Honoured to have been included in the Project Passion exhibition at Minnesota State University. This year, they have the theme of ‘collaboration’. As luck would have it, I was working on a collaborative project anyway, so the exhibition just added a deadline to it (always very helpful in getting things moving). The exhibition is running from September 18 to October 10, 2017. My contribution is … Read More
More Augmented Reality (AR) subvertising experiments
So I’ve managed to complete a few more of these, learning as I go. One issue that is maddening is the frequency that advertising is changed over. Quite a few times I’ve found a great billboard to cover, taken the shot, generated the artwork, and then found it no longer exists when I return to augment it. I think I just … Read More