Augmented Reality: The Boundaries of Invisible Worlds on owni.eu
....Speaking of ghosts, social issues are also targeted and effectively manifested in Border Monument: Frontera de los Muertos by John Craig Freeman and Mark Skwarek, both members of the Manifest.AR collective. The artists created the 3D model of a “calaca”, a commemorative skeleton figure from the Aztec tradition, and inserted one in several spots around the USA-Mexico border, where remains of dead immigrants had been found. This way the sinister legacy of the social imbalance between the two countries can be expressed through an immaterial monument, only viewable through mobile AR devices like smart phones.....
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