Warcraft ARmor by zei wei tan

Millions of World of Warcraft [WOW] users spend countless hours building up their avatars and fantasize about wearing their attire. The warcraft ARmor project gives players the ultimate experience and allows them to be fully immersed in their characters clothing by using augmented reality. For the project Zei Wei Tan downloaded his WOW figure with armor. He then mapped the 3d ARmor models to markers and attached them to a suit.
Shown in the video is more tests of this ongoing project.
This project was made in Mark Skwarek's 3d Grad Studio Seminar at NYU Polytech's BXMC. Code by Arun and Ashwine also from class.

erasAR -- Statue of Liberty erased!

DEMO Footage [part 2] -- Working proof of concept -- Mark Skwarek and the erasAR project have removed the Statue of Liberty from physical reality. Viewers may use their smart phones to see the empty pedestal upon which lady liberty used to stand.

Statue of Liberty erased with augmented reality, the eraAR project

Working proof of concept -- Mark Skwarek and the erasAR project have removed the Statue of Liberty from physical reality. Viewers may use their smart phones to see the empty pedestal upon which lady liberty used to stand.

AR Sun Project DEMO seen in Dumbo, Brooklyn

New Project --- The erasAR project

-- Work in progress. The erasAR project is a augmented reality art work which will erase different objects from the face of the earth [but not limited to the earth]. In the test video above a portion of the New York City skyline has been erase showing viewers what it would look like if there were no buildings there. The project will erase a number of physical objects including the Virgina coal mountains showing viewers what it will look like when they no longer exist.

The public is invited to submit objects they wish to be deleted from their daily existence to be included to the project.

WNYC says BUSHWICK AR INTERVENTION is a must see!

This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
WNYC's Arts Datebook for the week of November 11 through November 17, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 12:00 AM
By Carolina A. Miranda

Loading: A new definition of art? in "the next great generation"

Loading: A new definition of art?
By Erin McHugh on November 5th, 2010
in The Next Great Generation

Unicorn Park @ TEDx 2010 shown by Devotion Gallery

Unicorn Park @ TEDx 2010 shown by Devotion Gallery. The work is permanently installed in Pratt's courtyard in Brooklyn NY.

New Project -- The AR Sun Project

The AR Sun Project is a work which creates a augmented reality sun that replaces the real sun and can be viewed on smart phones. The sun will stay in alignment with the real as it moves across the sky. The goal of this project is create a virtual sun which can go where the real sun cannot, such as heavenly polluted cities where the sun can no longer be seen. http://arsunproject.wordpress.com/

Images from Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention

Images from Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention

Art in America Review!!

NURTURE ART will host "The Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention"!

NURTURE ART will host "The Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention"!

Unicorn Park shown by NURTURE ART and part of BETA Spaces 2010

Unicorn Park show by NURTURE ART and part of BETA Spaces 2010 Unicorn Park show by NURTURE ART and part of BETA Spaces 2010.

AR Earth Moon Tightrope Traverse

AR Earth Moon Tightrope Traverse new project in development- First Earth Moon Tightrope attempt.

The Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @v MoMA's garden

The Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @v MoMA's gardenThe Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @v MoMA's garden

BushwickBK.com -- BETA Spaces Balloons Into a Festival

BETA Spaces Balloons Into a Festival -- BushwickBK.com wrote about the show "Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention" which I am curating. The show opens Nov 14th and can be seen all over Bushwick NY.

Turbulence --- Live Stage: We AR in MoMA [us NYC]

Turbulence --- Live Stage: We AR in MoMA mentions the MoMA AR takeover.

Showing atTEDx Brooklyn

I'm showing at the TEDx Brooklyn Labs exhibitiion Nov 13th. The show is curated by Phoenix Perry thru Devotion Gallery.
LOCATION: Pratt Student Union, Brooklyn NY.v ...WEBSITE: http://www.areyoudevoted.com/ted
CONTACT: Phoenix at Press@AreYouDevoted.com

New Scientist :::Tech :::Innovation: how to delete corporate logos from view

New Scientist :::Tech :::Innovation: how to delete corporate logos from view

WNYC "All Things Considered" interview

WNYC "All Things Considered" interview
Just as we were installing the EKG Gallery show I received a email from Britta Conroy-Randall at WNYC Public Radio and was asked to do a phone chat. The next thing I knew I was being recorded for that days episode of "All Things Considered" which was a great honor. I grew up listening to "All Things Considered" everyday as a child so it really meant a lot!

BUSHWICK AUGMENTED REALITY INTERVENTION 2010

BUSHWICK AUGMENTED REALITY INTERVENTION 2010 I'm curating augmented reality intervention as part of BETA SPACES which is taking place on Nov 14th. Included artists -
Fatemah Baharith, Damon Baker, Amir Baradaran, Peter Chen, John Craig Freeman, Joseph Hocking, Cooper Holoweski, Lily & Honglei, Yuichi Irimoto, Patrick Lichty, Iris lin, Chris Manzione, Will Pappenheimer, Phoenix Perry, Nikkisha Persad, Nathan Shafer, Mark Skwarek, Alan Sondheim, Zhi Wei Tan, Tamiko Thiel, Sander Veenhof

Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling writes about "We AR in MoMA" again ^^

Augmented Reality: invading the Museum of Modern Art
* By Bruce Sterling Email Author
* October 11, 2010 |
* 12:30 pm |
* Categories: Augmented Reality

Pioneering augmented reality art at MoMA NYC

Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek pioneer augmented reality art at MoMA NYC

MoMA Tweets about our "We AR in MoMA" Show!!!

MoMA Tweets about our "We AR in MoMA" Show!!! -- this generated 326,000 retweets in a half an hour ^^.

WIRED -- BEYOND THE BEYOND [PART 1]

Here's a write up of the "We AR in MoMA" show on WIRED's BEYOND THE BEYOND by Bruce Sterling! Augmented Reality: AR uninvited at MOMA NYC

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) through the VPAP. [part 2]

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) through the VPAP. [part 2] from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

I will be talking as part of the New Tools for Civic Engagement: Betaville at the MASS NYC -- SUMMIT FOR NEW YORK CITY
Thursday, Oct 21
New and developing technologies are shaping the future of New York City’s built environment. Perhaps the best example of this is Betaville, a project based on gaming technology that invites the public to have hands-on participation in re-creating real urban spaces. This unique project, which currently focuses on Lower Manhattan, was created by Carl Skelton, director of the New York University Polytechnic Institute’s Brooklyn Experimental Media Center.

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) through the VPAP.

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) through the VPAP. from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

As shown-
by Mark Skwarek & John Craig Freeman

The augmented reality work "Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos" @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) through the Vitrual Public Art Project or VPAP.

We captured a section of the US/ Mexico boarder where migrants passed away trying to enter the U.S. - We have brought that 3d topography into the gallery space with augmented reality. Gallery goers
will be able to experience the location where the migrants passed.
The work is a vivid reminder of the price paid for the U.S. way of life.

Virtaflaneurazine Bufot Toad in "We AR in MoMA" show

Virtaflaneurazine Bufot Toad in "We AR in MoMA" show from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

A huge augmented reality sculpture of the Bufot Toad (the Virtaflaneurazine mascot) is installed in the Museum of Modern Art's atrium by Will Pappenheimer & John Craig Freeman as part of "We AR in MoMA" show, part of Conflux 2010.

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ the MoMA garden

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos @ the MoMA garden from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos -- openning tomorrow @ Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) this Friday 5 - 8

Uninvited DIY exhibition at MoMA NYC on Layar's blog-
By sanne on October 8th 2010

Mark and Sander just before the We AR in MoMA opening

Showing @ The Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) In PA FRIDAY

Mark Skwarek and John Craig Freeman will be showing at the Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) this Friday 10-15-10. We will be showing "Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos". We will move a section of the US/ Mexico where migrants died trying to enter the U.S. into the gallery space. Gallery goers will be able to experience the exact location where the migrants passed away with augmented reality.

more "We AR in MoMA"

Glacier_2 from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

This exibit was organized by Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek-

This exibit was organized by Mark Skwarek & Sander Veenhof

Patrick Lichty showing in "We AR in MoMA"- from mark skwarek on Vimeo.


Tamiko Thiel's work from mark skwarek on Vimeo.


Occupation Forces at Conflux! from mark skwarek on Vimeo.


Sander Veenhof's "7th floor" [of MoMA -- look up!] from mark skwarek on Vimeo.


Zhi Wei Tan - ftw from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

Glacier from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

This exibit was organized by Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek-

AR realtime glacier at Union Square test render_full_view from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

MoMA Conflux opening !!

Untitled from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

Bruce Sterling in the MoMA lobby with is realtime tweets.

Glacier from mark skwarek on Vimeo.

CONFLUX 2010 -- MOMA!!!!!!!!!!

We AR in MoMA

We AR in MoMA!!!!
join us

Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek

Developments in the field of phychogeography advance rapidly and radically. In former times the discipline required mental capabilities such as concentration and imagination, nowadays mobile phones provide us with easy-to-use viewing tools to percieve a multitude of fictive realities, anywhere we are, instantly. The technique causing this 'progression' is called augmented reality. It has led to an armada of virtual creativity of various kinds into our public physical space. Actually, AR has rewritten the scope of 'public space'. Physically walled private spaces, such as musea, are now open areas for anyone's objects and actions. To reflect on this and to investigate the implications for art intitutes, Mark Skwarek and I propose to infiltrate the MoMA with an augmented reality exhibition, curated and transmitted from a distance using GPS-driven Layer AR technology. A helpdesk will assist Conflux participants to collaborate and contribute a work to this "virtual DIY museum".

furtherfield review for "Spill >> Forward" show

furtherfield review for "Spill >> Forward" show -- full review here

"If I had to pick out just a few pieces from the show I'd say that I was struck by the sounds of Luke Munn's Deepwater Suite, by the visuals of Ubermorgen's DEEPHORIZON, by the monochrome images and text of Terri Garland's photography, by the video mash-up of Colette Broeders' Breathe and by the critical camp of Graham Bell's Radical Ecology. I think my favourite is Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking's "The Leak in Your Home Town", an iPhone app that uses the BP logo as an Augmented Reality marker to super-impose a 3D animation of the Deepwater leak over live video of your local BP petrol station. It is art that could only be made now, technologically, aesthetically and socially.

The aesthetic and conceptual competence of the artistic responses to the environmental and human crises of the oil spills in Spill >> Forward make the case for art still being a relevant and capable answer to society's need to make sense of unfolding events. Art can still provide a much-needed space for reflection, and Spill >> Forward creates just such a space in a very contemporary way."

Leak presented at the Motion Graphics Festival at Columbia College

Joseph Hocking presented our work at Columbia College's Ferguson Center
as part of the Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2010 this September.

The leak in your home town showing at Spill » Forward

The leak in your home town showing at Spill » Forward show. Responding to what has been called the United States’ worst ever environmental crisis, the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this forward-looking group exhibition. Following on the heels of a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the months of news coverage of oil gushing into the Gulf have provoked widespread unease with business as usual. As BP desperately attempts to recover both the oil and its public image, artists and designers from around the world are wrestling with the question of sustainability in the aftermath of these shocking events.

Flavor Pill's Flavorwire sites the Leak in Your Home Town

Flavor Pill's Flavorwire sites the Leak in Your Home in the"Artwork That Uses Augmented Reality" article.

Time Out Chicago has Joe's Upgrade! lecture in "This week's picks "

Time Out Chicago -- Art & Design -- Edited by Lauren Weinberg
This week's picks
Upgrade! Chicago
This art and technology lecture series continues with Joseph Hocking's presentation on the leak in your home town, which he's developing with Mark Skwarek. The augmented reality project is an iPhone app, which lets users see the Deepwater Horizon oil spill whenever they see a BP logo. Nightingale, Tue 14 at 7pm.

see Joseph Hocking @ chicago upgrade! presenting our work-
Sept Tue 14 at 7pm. I wish I could be there but have a full week of classes --
Directions

The Creators Project “Augmented Reality Augmenting The Art World”

Augmented Reality Augmenting The Art World -- by Julia Kaganskiy
The ability to superimpose additional information on a physical object is one of the most exciting aspects of AR, and one that is utilized to convey a poignant political message by artists Skwarek and Hocking. Although the BP oil scandal has died down considerably since the oil flow in the Gulf has been (finally) put to a stop, it was arguably the largest national disaster we’ve witnessed since Katrina. Still, both the government and the public seemed relatively unphased by the travesty, likely because it didn’t seem to affect them directly. Hocking and Skwarek’s iPhone app art piece hopes to eliminate that sense of distance by confronting the viewer with the realities of that gaping oil hole under the sea every time they see a BP logo, turning the logo into a tube hemorrhaging barrels of oil. The app is an interesting demonstration of how AR can be used to overcome the limitations of the physical world and make seemingly distant objects or information feel more immediate and relevant.

Mark Skwarek and Sander Veenhof showing at CONFLUX 2010!

Sander Veenhof and I will be collaborating on augmented reality projects which will be showing at CONFLUX 2010. I will be building from an AR piece which was originally Sander Veenhof's idea. I saw his idea [which I really liked] and decided to add a new 3d layer on top of his original project. Sander and I began to communicate and we decided to work collaboratively while maintaining 2 separate projects. I see this collaboration as a beginning to the virtual "layering" of the physical world, somewhat like coats of paint on top of one another. More info soon!

Hyper Allergic Review

Full article here -- Hyper Allergic Review

"One of the most awe-inspiring pieces in the show is Mark Skwarek & Joseph Hocking’s timely “the leak in your home town” (2010). Considered a “logo hack,” the artists have created an iPhone app (not available on iTunes or online yet) that allows users to hold up their iPhone cameras to the BP logo on the floor of the gallery, which is then transformed into a digitalized crude oil spill. It’s a fascinating technological trick and a type of corporate hacking that artists are only starting to experiment with. After my fascination subsided, I felt a sense of concern as I imagined how companies will eventually find ways to hook into the cool factor of these innovations and warp it into yet another means of advertising (think Foursquare)." -- Article by Hrag Vartanian

Tunneling Closing Party & After Party

Tunneling Closing Party & After Party
Today · 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location Famous Accountants and then an after party/housewarming at the curator Will Pappenheimer's renovated building at 698 Hart St., Brooklyn, 9pm onwards.

If you are in town Saturday, September 4, 6pm onwards please join us for the closing celebration "Tunneling" exhibition closing @ Famous Accountants and then an after party/housewarming at the curator Will Pappenheimer's renovated building at 698 Hart St., Brooklyn, 9pm onwards.

Art Review mentions Joe and Mark

Joseph Hocking and Mark Skwarek were mentioned in the review ""Tunneling" Curated by William Pappenheimer at FAMOUS ACCOUNTANTS" by James Kalm in Art Review.

Leak got on "James Kalm Report"

Leak got on "James Kalm Report" -- and it looks like I'm om the intro shot.

ISEA 2010 contribution

Betaville [made by NYU Polytech BXMC] was included in ISEA 2010 this year. I [w collaborator's help] made a project which was part of it [see images above]. The project was a pollution filtration, clean power generating, fish farm. The structure filters the cities pollution and generates clean oxygen with optimized greenhouses. It also generates power from wind and water. Finally organic fish are grown in the humane fish farms through out the structure.

MARK SKWAREK -- PRESENTING AT "HYBRID THEATRE WORKS" TONIGHT

I'M PRESENTING AT "HYBRID THEATRE WORKS" TONIGHT-
----------------
Artists respond to The Gulf Oil Spill
When: Sunday, August 29 @ 7pm
Location: “The Rooftop” at 308 Jefferson St. ( Jefferson Stop on the L train)
This is a FREE event!
However you are encouraged to bring either food or beverage to share
HYBRID THEATRE WORKS--
creating innovative events and programming at the intersection of performance and peace-building.

Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking mentioned in BushwickBK.com review

Famous Accountants Tunnel Deeper
by Paul Cox | August 24th, 2010
Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking mentioned in BushwickBK.com review for the Famous Accountants show.

New footage

Sketch for a possible upcoming collaboration with Sander Veenhof.

Famous Accountants just voted Best New Brooklyn Gallery!

Famous Accountants just voted Best New Brooklyn Gallery!
The L Magazine
Best of Brooklyn (and Manhattan too)
BEST NEW BROOKLYN GALLERY

Augmented Reality BP oil leak @ Famous Accountants Gallery

the leak in your home town
showing at Famous Accountants Aug 7th - Sept 4th, 2010. Sundays 1:00- 6:00 http://famousaccountants.wordpress.com/

Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking showing at Famous Accountants "Tunneling" show

Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking showing at Famous Accountants "Tunneling" show
Mark Skwarek
If you're around in Brooklyn next weekend check out Famous Accountants
"Tunneling" show Joseph Hocking and I are in. I've attached a sketch of the AR iPhone app we'll be showing.
http://famousaccountants.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116908825025251
Curator: Will Pappenheimer

August 7th — September 4th, 2010

Opening: Saturday, August 7th,
6PM - 10PM