mark skwarek's blog: May 2011

Thursday, May 19, 2011

NATIONAL ARTS CENTER -- Opening July 9

OMI INTER PRESS RELEASE:2011
Opening July 9,
NATIONAL
ARTS CENTER

ARCHITECTURE OMI

Peter Franck, Director

Board of Directors

Lee H. Skolnick, Board Chair

Elisabeth Akkerman

Alice Aycock

Isabelle Autones

Meta Brunzema

Jacob Buksbaum

John Cleater

Tarik Currimbhoy

Bruce L. Ehrmann

Francis Greenburger

Marc Kemeny

Oliver Kruse

Paola Iacucci

John Powers

Carter Ratcliff

Michael Regan

Hedy Roma

Kathleen Triem

Allan Wexler

The Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY and Architecture Omi are pleased to announce
the following exhibit:

AUGMENTED REALITY: PEELING LAYERS OF SPACE OUT OF THIN AIR

Curator + AR Developer: John Cleater
Architecture Omi Program Director: Peter Franck
AR Development Consultants: Mark Skwarek and Will Pappenheimer

PARTICIPATING ARCHITECTS:
Vito Acconci Studio
Asymptote
Karl Chu
John Cleater
Thomas Leeser
SHoP Architects
Studio Daniel Libeskind
Bill MacDonald+Sulan Kolatan
SITE

ARCHITECTURE OMI:
Architecture Omi is a program conceived to facilitate projects exploring the intersection of
architecture, art and landscape. It offers a pristine natural site of approximately 60 acres on
the over 400 acre campus of the Omi International Arts Center. The program envisions the
development and production of physical installations and theoretical musings in a laboratory-
style setting.

AUGMENTED REALITY: A Description of the Concept:
Augmented Reality can be viewed on 3-G or better smartphones through the download of an
app by Layar the world’s largest mobile A/R platform with over 1M active users . Pointing one’s
phone camera at a specific location and looking through the app, one can view uploaded site
specific information in a variety of media including 3D models, text, audio and video files.

PEELING LAYERS OF SPACE OUT OF THIN AIR:
Architecture Omi is commissioning architects to create 3-dimensional architectural projects
which will be overlayed into specific locations on the grounds of the Omi Campus. These aug-
mented reality “visions” will appear on the smartphones as fully executed architectonic medi-
tations which will explore a variety of issues concerning architecture and landscape. As one
walks around the OMI fields using the screen of their phone as a lens to view these architec-
tonic apparitions, each project will appear scaled and fully realized from all angles of sight.
The architects were chosen based upon their prominence in pursuing a visionary approach
towards architecture and their commitment to realizing unprecedented modes of expression
in both the built and academic realms. This show, groundbreaking in conception will un-
doubtedly be widely influential to both the public and the profession.

For information, please contact Peter Franck, Director, Architecture Omi: pfranck@artomi.org
or John Cleater, Curator at john@cleater.com and see our blog at www.architectureomi.org

CAMPUS:1405 County Route 22, Ghent, N.Y. 12075 T: 518 392 2181 pfranck@artomi.org www.artomi.org