Walking in circles.
Street art style paintings with Augmented reality featuring animation and video.
This zeotrope type instillation structure holds 24 paintings in a cricle.
12 of the paintings are black or have a very minimal mark or code to trigger augmented reality features.
The other 12 paintings feature an astronaut running. These 12 paintings are half of a 24 frames per second animation.
The circle represents the globe rotation and infinity.
The running motion represents Edweard Maubridges early studies of motion and photography and also references the zeotrope in early animation.
The 24 paintings represent 24 frames in a second (used in film) and 24 hour for the day.
The blank or nearly blank frames represent a 12 hour clock.
The paintings are black and silver with silver showing a homage to old film while also the space man represents moving forward and the future.
The augmented reality attached to the black paintings os a way of also adding homage to Mauybridges studies in technology.
AUGMENTED INTERACTIVITY
Each of the black or marked black paintings will have a trigger for Augmented reality features. These ‘hidden’ images will appear with viewers using a QR code that links to an Instagram filter. The Instagram filters are limited in file size but are widely available and avoid cumbersome downloads. It also allows the user to film record and share each of the works.
Note on selling.
I would be happy to sell the work but also I think that the augmented images that appear when we look at the black paintings could be sold as art prints. this would make a total of 13 prints that would be available and 12 from the augmented feature and 1 print of the spaceman in walking motion. Prints can be ordered and printed after the exhibition.
ABOUT SPACER STREET ART:
Spacer was originally developed from a collection of astronaut oil paintings entitled ‘That Space in between’ . I would describe the idea of the work as ‘ that moment after you leave but before you get there’. The implication on making a choice and not knowing the outcome. This project later developed to larger street art paintings nicknamed spacer / Space AR and now I'm looking at exploring the space between real and virtual with street art, canvas and prints mixed with AR , VR and digital video.
