Part of the Fact Craft workshop series organized by Pioneer Works.
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Location: Pioneer Books, part of Pioneer Works
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When: SUN, OCT 15, 1-5PM and WED, OCT 18, 7-9PM
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Instructors:
Whose stories dominate urban memory? Who is “allowed” to participate in the process of placemaking? How do we construct alternative modes of engaging with a public space?
Locative media, or location-aware interactive environments or technologies, include everything from mobile games to responsive installations to maps that use geospatial data. Artists and activists use locative technologies to present alternative narratives in a process of communal fact creation.
In this Fact Craft workshop, we will work specifically with augmented reality (AR) to layer multimedia on top of existing spaces. We will teach tactics for imagining alternative narratives as well as methods for critically observing and engaging with urban spaces. Over the course of two sessions, participants will learn how artists use a variety of mediums to augment and reclaim public space and how to create an AR piece that responds to and intervenes in a place of personal significance.
Participants will need to bring their own laptop to the workshop with Unity and Vuforia installed. A limited number of computers will be available on site.
- Download Unity here
- Make sure you select “Unity 5.6.3” (note: this is an older version of Unity that works with the Vuforia SDK. Unity 2017.2 is in beta and has a Vuforia extension built-in)
- During the installation walk-through, make sure Android support is selected from “Components” (It should be auto-selected).
- Create a Unity Account.
- Download here
- Click “Download Unity Extension (legacy)”
1 - 1:30 pm Introductions - who we are
1:30 - 2:30pm Presentation/Discussion
2:30 - 2:45pm BREAK
2:45 - 3:45pm Introduction to Unity & Vuforia
3:45 - 4:00pm Brainstorm and design exercise
4 - 5pm Discussion about what people want to make for the next class.
Before the second session: Send us a picture of the space or object you would like to alter/augment and we will bring the printout to class for you. Remind them that they will have an hour working time in the next session.
7 - 7:15pm Recap on Sunday’s workshop
7:15 - 8:30pm Working time
8:30 - 9:00pm Project Presentation
Feel free to add to this list!
- VillageLIVE - telling queer stories about Greenwich Village
- Finding Alberta - Copenhagen’s colonialist past, as told through archival photos and information
- Mapping Ararat - fictionalized memorial celebrating Jewish culture on NY’s Grand Island
- The Illuminator - an art-activist collective that stages projection-interventions in public spaces
- Hologram Protest in Spain - protesters barred from being on government property, so virtual protest
- Frontera de los Muertos - remembering thousands of migrant workers who died at the US/Mexico border
- The AR Goddess of Democracy at Tianamen Square - memorializing those who died in the square despite Chinese censorship
- AR Occupy Wall Street - superimpose signs and imagery over spaces in which they were prevented from protesting
- Buycott - identifies Koch products in grocery stores
- “The leak in your hometown” - Protests BP after the BP oil spill
- No ads - replaces subway advertisements with original artworks