CAC · Atelier | Creating Your First Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic and somatosensory.

Incorporating the artist’s personal practice, the workshop will demonstrate a series of basic AR applications, including target tracking, plane tracking, face tracking, and world AR. The participant will be invited to use Spark AR (An augmented reality software made by Facebook that comes with easy-to-use templates and large asset libraries) and other open-source platforms (such as Sketchfab and Mixamo) to create his/her/their first AR application/work.

At the same time, the workshop will introduce a series of inspiring AR fields and practices, including AR Social Intervention, AR performance and AR commissions by major tech companies. For example, American artist Mark Skwarek used AR Logo hacking approach to make visible the illegal things done by some large-scale international banks and companies, or used AR to erase the separation barriers between countries in a war zone, to suggest a more peaceful and hopeful world. Canadian Artist Jeremy Bailey used AR face filter to “wear” the TV on his face to imagine a “future of television”.