Session: A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness/Interactivity and Mobility in Mixed Realities
This talk examines the ambivalence of destination as one of the key features of augmented reality. The author main claim is that AR's potential innovativeness lies in its ability to generate new ways of perceiving for the spectator and the spectator-turned-user is then required to interact.
The author looks at two different AR environments to examine modalities by which ambivalence is overcome or used aesthetically. The first example is Raphael Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Park, an interactive light beam installation in Madison Square Park in New York City.
The second example is the Mobile Feelings project, in which people held stones that captured bodily sensations and allowed other stones to receive and project those people's bodily sensations.
The talk wrapped up with a discussion on the ambivalence of AR and the tension between "Here you are now" and "Where are you now?"
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