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Memory @ AVAF 2010 from pkmital on Vimeo.

‘Memory’ is an augmented installation of a neural network by Parag K Mital & Agelos Papadakis.
hand blown glass, galvanized metal chain, projection, cameras; 1.5m x 2.5m x 3m

Ghostly images of faces appear as recorded movie clips within neural-shaped hand-blown glass pieces. As one begins to look at the neurons, they notice the faces as their own, trapped as disparate memories of a neural network.

Filmed and installed for the Athens Video Art Festival in May 2010 in Technopolis, Athens, Greece. The venue is a disused gas factory converted art space.

Also seen at Kinetica Art Fair, Ambika P3, London, UK, 2010; Passing Through Exhibition, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK, 2009; Interact, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.

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Though AR has been around for awhile (ACM Special Issue in 1993 though dedicated conferences beginning in 1997), it seems to be at a point where it is finally hitting the mainstream.  A number of development libraries have been around for awhile (ARToolkit, FlARToolkit, ARTAG,  D’Fusion @Home, Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRT), Unifeye Viewer Xtra,  Mirage Builder, and Studierstube Tracker). Though with the advent of the iPhone App Market and the Google Android Market Place, we are finally starting to see some practical applications that seem to be a head start towards a meta-tagged world. I’ll continually add more here and try to group them as I see fit. But the basic premise of these applications allows users to create a digital layer over the physical one. I think the SixthSense video demo shows this concept brilliantly (though most of the demo is more concept than reality).

Using the camera to detect features in a scene:

(1) Google Goggles

(2) SixthSense (the demo is more concept than reality)

(3) SREngine
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Augmented Reality Browsers (see a comparison of a few here):

(1) Layar

(2) WWSignpost

(3) Wikitude (though this seems … Continue reading...