{"id":118834,"date":"2021-01-24T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/watch-londons-cool-quirky-augmented-reality-art-exhibit-at-home"},"modified":"2021-01-24T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:23:33","slug":"watch-londons-cool-quirky-augmented-reality-art-exhibit-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/watch-londons-cool-quirky-augmented-reality-art-exhibit-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Watch London\u2019s Cool, Quirky Augmented Reality Art Exhibit at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-gO3oz5UfUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it worked: red buoys placed along the river walk indicated the locations of the digital artworks. Visitors had to install an app on their phones called Acute Art. Pointing their phones at the area around the buoys, they\u2019d see the digital sculptures appear.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork didn\u2019t follow any particular theme, but rather consisted of everything from a giant, furry spider to a wriggling octopus to a levitating spiritual leader. Artists included Norwegian <a href=\"http:\/\/bjarnemelgaard.com\/\">Bjarne Melgaard<\/a>, Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/art21.org\/artist\/cao-fei\/\">Cao Fei<\/a>, Argentine <a href=\"https:\/\/studiotomassaraceno.org\/\">Tomas Saraceno<\/a>, German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alicjakwade.com\/\">Alicja Kwade<\/a>, American <a href=\"https:\/\/kawsone.com\/password\">KAWS<\/a>, and several others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to use augmented reality to shape emotional connections with humans,\u201d Fei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/12976\/london-launches-its-first-ever-invisible-art-show-cao-fai-unreal-city-acute-art\">told <em>AnOther<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> \u201cAugmented reality can re-enact what has happened in the past and provide an alternative to reality that is open-ended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how it worked: red buoys placed along the river walk indicated the locations of the digital artworks. Visitors had to install an app on their phones called Acute Art. Pointing their phones at the area around the buoys, they\u2019d see the digital sculptures appear. The artwork didn\u2019t follow any particular theme, but rather consisted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}