Augmented Reality – Artificial Intelligence

Monastic Vowels of a Computational Kind

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:57:14 +0000

Sinan Bökesoy (TR)

Religion projects the design thoughts and creation laws of a super being, a creator able to demonstrate super-complex structures. The human fear of the unknown and of the inexplicable around us welcomes a super being, a common accepted way of reasoning. According to the philosopher Daniel Dennett: “We’re robots made of robots made of robots.”

We’re incredibly complex, trillions of moving parts. But they’re all non-miraculous robotic parts.” Furthermore, today’s AI is a creation of man in his own image with a possible evolution towards the Super-AI. Inside such a loop of creation and design, religion finds its way to establish itself and become respected as a god, still observing but preferring to keep its distance and not intervene directly.

Monastic Vowels of a Computational Kind is an interactive installation augmenting the POSTCITY with an imaginary soundscape of a temple of unknown times, but serving a Super-AI-created religion communicating through sonic attraction. Various themes such as the “great flood”, “angel”, “redemption” are offered within soundscape compositions through interaction with the installation space.

The visitor uses the dedicated iPhone app to reach the sonic imprints of this temple. Their perceptual experience continuously oscillates between the realm of the current installation space and the augmented apparitions of the temples within that space, depending on the positional information, orientation and the angle at which the iPhone is held.

The graphic icons distributed at various locations in the installation space are informative as points of interaction for the visitor. Their design emerges as a mixture of the “Utopian” alphabet and the “Aurebesh” alphabet letters.

About the artist

Sinan Bökesoy (TR) is an artist, composer and software developer, who has continued his education, academic activities, and international career for many years in Paris, France. He received his PhD from University of Paris under the direction of H. Vaggione, and his music compositions on micro sound synthesis, performances with robotic instruments and softwares he developed such as the Cosmosf are well known. He is the founder of sonicPlanet and sonicLAB , developing products on advanced sound synthesis and sonic augmented reality applications supported continuously with artistic activities.

Read more: starts-prize.aec.at.

This project is presented in the framework of the STARTS Prize 2017. STARTS Prize received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732019.

Am seidenen Faden

Gregor Tatschl — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:24:51 +0000

Lea Weil (DE)

In the installation Am seidenen Faden illustrations come to life with the help of augmented reality (AR). However, the use of AR in this project aims not only to present a modern way of storytelling but also provides additional information on the different topics. To emphasize the sensitivity of the subject matter, all illustrations are made of paper.

Computer Animation / Film / VFX – Out of Exile

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:59:18 +0000

Nonny de la Peña, Emblematic Group (US)

Out of Exile is an impressive virtual reality experience that deals with society’s negative attitude toward LGBTQ* youth.

A boy named Daniel Ashley Pierce ends up in a heated conflict with his family due to his sexual orientation. Authentic audio recordings were used for the project, which Daniel recorded unnoticed during the actual argument.

Viewers find themselves in the midst of the conflict situation between him and his family in their living room and accompany Daniel through this emotionally charged experience. Holograms of the central characters were created using the latest techniques such as videogrammetry (3D video measurement technology) and HTC Vive (VR headset). The viewer has an opportunity to move freely through the scene and become part of the story.

* Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer