The Augmented Selfie

In 1901 L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , imagined a kind of augmented reality (AR), viewed through spectacles, that could indicate specific characteristics about a person invisible to the naked eye. Today, AR allows artists to place virtual elements: videos, 3D graphics and audio, into the physical world, providing “mixed reality“ experiences that can offer new perspectives on identity and subjecthood in the twenty-first century. This paper will highlight how I have implemented selfie vernacular and augmented reality technologies as storytelling devices in identity construction. The drawings and expanded AR narratives in The Selfie Drawings , a mixed reality artist’s book, are an inventory of how a self, both the physical and virtual body, can be perceived in the Digital Age. Using 2D and 3D elements in my work, fragmenting the body, attaching it to, or intertwining it with digital augmentation devices, I am pondering the state of existing simultaneously IRL and URL in symbiotic relationships with technology and mediated culture.

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Carla Gannis

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 319-326

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[0001]Pratt Institute

Department of Digital Arts

Brooklyn, NY, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.66

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] E. RolinsonS. Clark 2016 “Flown” Sculptural Light Installation. CHI’2016 San Jose, CA, USA 7-12 May Extended Abstracts, ACM

[2] S. Clark 2016 Connected Digital Artworks J. P. BowenG. DiproseN. Lambert EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London, UK 12-14 July 287 288 BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. DOI:10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.57

[3] S. Clark 2016 A Cybernetic Ecology: An Exhibition of Interactive Artworks by Sean Clark. http://interactdigitalarts.uk/cybernetic 1 April 2017

[4] S. ClarkE. Edmonds 2013 ColourNet: A System of Interactive and Interacting Artworks CHI’2013 Paris, France 27 April 2 May Extended Abstracts, ACM

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