Slides from latest Augmented Reality talk
I’d like to share with you the slides from my recent talk “Augmented Reality: Art, Magic and the Machine” at The Museum, Waterloo, Canada as part of the Rethinking Art and Machine Speaker Series.
I’ve talked about wonderment and imagination in the past in regards to advancing AR as a new medium, but this talk was about the importance of curiosity, beginning by looking at AR through the lens of Alice in Wonderland. AR presents us with very curious awe-inspiring possibilities; we must engage our curiosity to push the medium forward in novel ways, continually questioning, creating and collaborating. Here is a link to a wonderful video I included in my talk by Skillshare on feeding and nurturing our curiosity.
In my presentation I also spoke to the importance of engaging the other senses in AR, not just vision alone. Magic also played a central theme throughout my talk from Georges Melies and early cinema to Arthur C. Clarke and the magic of advanced technologies. AR is an inherently magical and enchanting medium. I suggest that we allow stories and content to evolve from and be inspired by the magic of the technology, not lost in it. I also discuss the role of the artist as central to advancing AR and evolving new forms.
Have a look and then join me in conversation on Twitter.
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