[Image: HeHe, Fracking Futures, 2013. Installation. Image courtesy of the artists.] Turning FACT Inside Out :: June 13 - September 15, 2013 :: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ, UK.

A selection of provocative international artists tackle some of the most pressing, controversial and literally ground-breaking political issues of today. Exploring aspects of environment, architecture, capitalism and augmented reality, Turning FACT Inside Out is an exhibition that will take over the entire building and beyond, including recreating an indoor fracking site complete with earth tremors and flames. Continue reading

Project 929: Mapping the Solar — Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention by Joseph DeLappe :: May 19-29, 2013 :: LIVE STREAM. Continue reading

Augmented Reality Dance :: October 7, 2012 :: World-Wide Call for Participation. Continue reading

Via Inception helmet creates alternative reality by Mo Costandi, guardian.co.uk.

MyMirrorCity by Will Pappenheimer (with Manifest.AR, for the Conversations exhibition) :: August 24 - October 21, 2012 :: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nikolaj Plads 10, Copenhagen, DK - 1067, Denmark.

MyMirrorCity transforms the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Nikolaj Church building, the surrounding area and as much of Copenhagen as possible into a city of mirrored buildings. Participants take a picture of themselves (or any image of their desire), upload it, and it then appears on every facet of all the buildings around them in augmented reality space. Continue reading

Coming Soon! Explorations in Urban Renewal from the Physical to the Virtual by Stephanie Rothenberg, part of “Art Environment Action!” exhibition :: Opening: September 27, 2012; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s (SJDC), 66 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street), New York. Continue reading

Mixed Realities Video by Emma Puente :: Documentation for Mixed Realities, an international networked art exhibition and symposium curated by Jo-Anne Green, February 7 - April 15, 2008, Huret & Spector Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts), Ars Virtua (Second Life) and Turbulence.org :: Music and Narration by Helen Thorington. Continue reading

Manifest.AR ARtsense Presentation at FACT from FACT on Vimeo.

In this Medea Talk, Jeannette Ginslov discusses the developmental stages of the AffeXity project, the interdependence of the collaborators, the relational and dynamic formation of technical and human intervention, the encounters of the carnal and the digital, the dialogic and temporal scaffolding of encounters of techne and the hands that attempt to capture affect. Read more here.

[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60's, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:

Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between humans and the environments in which they live; a static assemblage of semi-inert materials orchestrated, amongst other things, to temper environmental forces for human habitation. With advances in material and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Continue reading