Tipped off from science fiction author and Wired blogger Bruce Sterling, we heard that the Manifest.AR Augmented Reality Artist Group will be hosting an augmented reality (AR) live event [at 2:15 PM EST] that can be seen and accessed online (just in time for that Friday afternoon lull), or viewed in person at the Club Karlsson Art Space in Amsterdam. All that we know about the “opening” is that the work will “infiltrate and give the global community access to a highly contrasted space.” Their last event held at the MoMA in October, unbeknownst to the museum, provided patrons with the proper mobile software access to manipulated, and additional, augmented artwork. Here’s an excerpt from the group’s mission statement explaining AR’s purpose in art:With AR we install, revise, permeate, simulate, expose, decorate, crack, infest and unmask Public Institutions, Identities and Objects previously held by Elite Purveyors of Public and Artistic Policy in the so-called Physical Real. AR is not an Avant-Garde Martial Plan of Displacement, it is an Additive Access Movement that Layers and Relates and Merges. It embraces all Modalities. Against the Spectacle, the Realized Augmented Culture introduces Total Participation.Augmented Reality is a new Form of Art, but it is Anti-Art. It is Primitive, which amplifies its Viral Potency. It is Bad Painting challenging the definition of Good Painting. It shows up in the Wrong Places. It Takes the Stage without permission. It is Relational Conceptual Art that Self-Actualizes.AR Art is Anti-Gravity, it is Hidden and must be Found. It is Unstable and Inconstant. It is Being and Becoming, Real and Immaterial. It is There and can be Found – if you Seek It.To participate in this afternoon’s event, all you need is an active Twitter account. Let’s see what happens…
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