Friday 3 February 2023

Weaving Wormholes

WORMHOLES EXHIBITION
MANIFESTO and FANTASY

I would like to weave distant spaces together by adding Internet links to fine art prints -- in order to create a web of wormholes which together would deliver a bigger artistic experience over say, the wider terrain of a whole city.  In 2023 I aim to incorporate AI (Artificial Intelligence), AR (Augmented Reality) and Holograms into my BUCKET EXHIBITIONS of framed 8x8 inch prints.


Whenever we show our prints in our pop-up exhibitions, I post a labeling legend with links to the web pages (or Etsy pages) of each artist -- and even add a QR Code to a central page with all the Internet links.  

In this way, each web link creates a wormhole behind each print, because it leads to a place beyond the present physical space, albeit only online.



However if each print were enhanced with  AR (Augmented Reality) the pop-up experience would be more engaging.  If the viewer could see a 3D object or animation overlaid over the print, when he raised his phone over the "target" artwork, that would deepen the wormholes.  Each print should deliver a different AR experience, like AR did with three of our Desert Triangle prints.



If AR pulls the viewers into the wormhole behind the print, they could project themselves into a distant space.  Not that they would be physically transported, but the AR might prime up another experience somewhere else. That might happen later, when someone spots a slightly different version of the same print on the other side of town (which might also be enhanced with AR) --  thus those two spooky prints would connect two distant places in space, creating an art wormhole.


WebXR works in the browser, so the viewers do not have to download an app to experience AR -- however it has no free and easy way to create AR "targets." 8th Wall apparently can recognize each print as a "target," and deliver a custom AR experience for each print.  8th Wall does not require the viewer to download an app, but they do charge to host the AR experiences.


For example, I've always wanted to show my sculpture in the sculpture garden, even if I have to fake it with AR.  What if I first showed five framed 8x8 inch prints in a pop-up BUCKET EXHIBITION -- and augmented each print with a 3D sculptural image, that showed up on the visitor's smart phone.  Suppose those SAME 3D images pop-up with AR around the sculpture garden in front of the Albuquerque Museum.  The AR sculptures would link two distant points in space, creating art wormholes (I have a lot of 3D images ready for AR exhibition). Moreover the different contexts, between the pop-up exhibition and the sculpture garden, would deliver completely different experiences -- an art exhibition experience that was bigger than the sum of the parts.  


My 3D drawing in the sculpture garden
in front of the Albuquerque Museum


Now suppose I exhibited prints by five different artists, that conjured different AR sculptures by each of those five artists...and those different AR sculptures were also scattered in the sculpture garden in front of the Albuquerque Museum.   Let the art wormhole weaving begin...

After creating the worms holes with AR, the challenge would be to then tangle them up together.

I think of this as "sculpting space."

Side note: Albuquerque has a more urgent necessity to weave art wormholes.  As Elaine de Kooning noted in THE INDIVIDUALISTS article of Southwest Contemporary, the artists don't really get together here, but rather work in disparate networks that are unaware of each other.  Which makes sense because unlike other cities, Albuquerque has no center.  Santa Fe has a plaza that attracts people, but Albuquerque has a plaza that repeals people. 


Note also that the prints could also link to a VR gallery online, in addition to a physical sculpture garden.  In Spatial there are also VR wormholes embedded in their 3D galleries, that leap into other 3D galleries..



HOLOGRAM Complication

In addition to adding AR to the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS,  I would also like to show the Looking Glass Hologram Portrait display with the ten framed 8x8 inch prints.  Perhaps when an AR sculpture was triggered by someone's cell phone focusing on a particular print, that could also upload a particular animated hologram on the Looking Glass hologram display.  The whole pop-up print exhibition could be tuned into something more interactive.


AI Complication

Of course in 2023 AI (Artificial Intelligence) could turbo charge the whole AR wormhole experience, for better or for worse.  I have already been making prints with images generated by AI.

 AI Adjusted Linocuts


And I am even already creating 3D files with AI  using the Point-E text-to-3D Demo:



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Any INTERACTIVE ART exhibition has to be more exciting in the 21st Century.  I still want to let the public control sculptures with their iPhones, something like what we showed off in 2014, at the Southwest Makerfest in Mesa, Arizona:



Sooo...if the public could control the prints with their iPhones somehow...


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