Giant Hands Augmented Reality in Bryant Park / by Mirena Rhee

This summer I started a series of Augmented Reality experiments with increasing complexity all over New York City. I have always been fascinated with New York city as an incredible lego construct of lives, architecture and machines. And wanted to flatten it out as a backdrop to artwork.

In this instance the digital art lives in real space, it is a intermediate state of multi-presence that interests me.

New Yorkers often unwittingly participate in all kinds of dreadful experiements conducted by mischievos artists - in this case willingly submit their bodies as 3d props in an Augmented Reality scheme in Bryant Park.