Based on this week’s readings, I found myself pondering the ramifications of augmented reality technologies on our modern world. It astounds me that something as “innocent” as a consumer AR app can raise unprecedented issues of privacy and space. These new art technologies have inadvertently shook up institutions like the MoMA, a handy tool in the ever-changing socio-political climates of the digital age. I get excited at the idea of VR/AR technologies dismantling the art industry and shifting the paradigm of who has the keys to the operation. At the same time, I lament for the consumers collective consciousness, as Google intends to use these same technologies to impose their will as well as the wills of other corporations through another revolution in the world of advertising.
In regards to my geolocation project, I am now well aware of the disruption of space that these kinds of projects warrant. My project takes a Los Angeles film location, and tries to envelop the viewer in the universe of the movie of which was filmed there. The project will take the viewer through the anatomy of a scene, experiencing the place differently than the everyday. I am not filling a proposed reality with various virtual objects intended for subversion. My project is more information-based and does not concern with alteration or distortion, but rather recontextualization of a space.