How Salem’s Augmented Reality Exhibit is Actually a Social Mission
From May 27 to Nov. 30, the Salem Maritime National Historic Site will feature 10 augmented reality sculptures in a free exhibition that's open to the public. The exhibits are going to be positioned throughout the park via GPS, and will be viewable using the augmented reality app Layer. For visitors that don’t have a smart device with them, there will be phones and tablets for checkout.
The work will be curated by five internationally-acclaimed artists: John Craig Freeman, Kristin Lucas, Will Pappenheimer, Mark Skwarek, and Tamiko Thiel.
I caught up with one of the artists, John Craig Freeman, ... Freeman will bring virtual sights from Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Wuhan, China, to the Port of Salem. Visitors will have the chance to look at the former house of a Russian Tea Merchant and the cathedrals of Saint Petersburg. He explained that the location for the exhibit works especially well, as the Baltic region and China have had a shared history of trade with Port of Salem.
[Meron Gribetz] “And what I think we need to do as a community, is really try and make an effort to imagine how we can create this new reality in a way that extends the human experience, instead of gamifying our reality or cluttering it with digital information.”
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