Augmented reality
From Institute of Intermedia
AUGMENTED REALITY
boeing headmounted display In 1990, Boeing researcher Tom Caudell first coined the term “augmented reality” to describe a digital display used by aircraft electricians that blended virtual graphics onto a physical reality. As for the computer science world’s definition of augmented reality (AR) though, it’s more detailed, but essentially the same: Augmented reality is the interaction of superimposed graphics, audio and other sense enhancements over a real-world environment that’s displayed in real-time.
LINKS
[1]www.future-cities-lab.net
text:
Manovich, Lev. “The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada” (2002, updated 2005)
creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/.../manovich_augmented_space.pdf
Lygia Clark & Hélio Oiticica - for wearables and augmented reality without 'technology'
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoff.html
Stelarc - extensions of the body http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/video.html
Steve Mann and Mediated Vision - The concept of sousveillance has been around since at least 1998, when Steve Mann, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, coined the term. The term has gained greater currency over the past ten years as the cell-phone camera, digital tape recorder, handheld video camera and many other mobile devices have become ubiquitous. The spread of cheap communications technologies is changing the power equation between the surveillers and ordinary citizens. Sousveillance is commonly directed against police as a way to document their (anticipated) abuses. The classic example is the amateur video footage of LA policemen brutalizing Rodney King in 1991. Now that lightweight cameras are everywhere and footage can easily be posted on YouTube and other websites http://wearcam.org/sousveillance_is_self-enacting.htm
sousveillance equiveillance video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFtmrpuwNY (eyetap)
old version: http://vimeo.com/9807819
Julian Oliver and Levelhead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJYKSFANuaQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T435vho6zg&feature=related
Blast Theory Mixed Reality Works - http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_cysmn.html http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/mov/mov_cysmn_tokyo.html
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/augmented_reality/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1858961024945874645&q=Pileus#
Jeremy Bailey is a Canadian artist who is interested in Augmented Reality that parody New Media video and sculpture. Video Terraform Dance Party is a performance where the artist creates a Utopian society, only to destroy it and rebuild it. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNO0l4ppgIY
