Augmented reality artists add a new layer to your world in Snap’s ambitious ‘City Unseen’ exhibition
City Unseen resuscitates the Dreamers and other buffed-out murals, and adds the world's newest art medium to Orlando's repertoire of fine art.
"They may phase out DACA and the DREAM Act, but it is still part of us," Kahn said to Orlando Weekly recently. When City Unseen goes live Friday, Nov. 2, not only will the mural be visible again with the mediation of your cell phone, but three of the Dreamers will come alive and speak to you about their experiences as immigrants to America.
And this is only one of the 10 augmented reality experiences Snap will bring to Orlando, many to live on in cyberspace after the show is over. Download the City Unseen app from your smartphone's app store; when opened, the little orange tile takes you to a map of Orlando showing where you can augment our built environment's drab reality with a fine art experience. At each location, holding your phone over a City Unseen plaque snaps a three-dimensional object onto the screen or adds a new layer to the known world.
With so many people shuffling along the sidewalk nose down, instead of eyes on the surrounding city, artists are going where the action is – on the tiny screens that sadly pass for the new reality.
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