Monday, 16 June 2025

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Exhibition in Santa Fe

I went to the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition after printmaking at the Santa Fe Art Institute on June 14, 2025:

was at El Museo
in the Santa Fe Railyard


Arvada, Colorado

CORRINA ESPINOSA showed an AR (Augmented Reality) exhibition.  The visitor only had to scan the QR Code, and then hoover their phone over the images hung on the wall, to enjoy an AR experience.  Then the visitor could move over to the next image and see another AR experience, without scanning another QR code:



The image set off an AR experience
when the visitor hooved their phone
over one of the images hanging on the wall


Perhaps it will work here --
scan the QR code
and then hoover your smart phone over the image


NOTE: I have been trying to do this.  I want the phone to recognize the images like they were a QR Code, and conjure an AR sculpture (3D image) -- without having to download an app.  Plus I wanted to activate different AR sculptures from different images side-by-side, but after reading only one QR Code.

Grant showed me this with his smart phone, when we went to visit CURRENTS on June 20th, 2025.  He also pointed out that the whole experience was orchestrated from a website.  In other words, one only had to go to the website once, and DID NOT have to download an app to enjoy the Augmented Reality.  It was easy for the viewer to experience the AR.

We think she used both A-Frame and Mind-AR

https://corrinaespinosa.com/ailoveyou/



Oakland, California

SUSIE FU drew portraits by hand, next to a black box that spit out line drawing portraits, apparently after taking a photo and processing it, probably with an AI program:

The black box
even captured my double chin
(at the bottom of the roll)


Susie Fu drawing a portrait
of another person


My portrait drawn by Susie Fu (left, bottom)
next to the black box portraits of me (middle, right)
happening in real time




Waste by a human and the black box



MIRCO TIOZZO
Milan, Italy


MIRCO TIOZZO had an AI Interactive projection.  One would put their hand or face in front of the small camera that projected onto a big screen, and then AI proceeded to warp that image:

Animation of a hand
morphing by AI


Hand being warped by AI
in real time


Atlanta

CHELSI COCKING had a great interactive motion screen:

Visitors moved behind the screen
and the screen lit up their motions


Seattle


AN TER ATAMISO is apparently a film by Robert Campbell and Jarrad Powell.  Robert Campbell generated the backgrounds in Midjourney, and then inserted live actors over them...like a green screen effect:




For fun I reiterated the above image
that was partially created with Midjourney,
in Midjourney using one of my Mood Boards


New Jersey

ROSS WIGHTMAN had a pop-up musical performance -- FIDDLE HENGE -- when he played four violins at once with this rotating machine:



New York City

LAUREN PETTY and SHAUN IRONS used AI to make sculpture busts talk:
Albuquerque


SILK + SOUND is a visual and sound piece by Mary Tsiongas and Jim Roeber created in Tbilsi, Georgia.  They sew copper wire onto a 2D image -- does this copper wire convert the image into a speaker?




El Prado, New Mexico


VIOLET MOON TOWER created an AI COLLABORATION:




Germany

PLEASE BE ME by Michaela Hanemann made no sense to me...but I had no phone to read the QR Codes.

PREVIOUS CURRENTS

I blogged about previous CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibitions:




The AXLE CONTEMPORARY art van was parked in front of the CURRENTS exhibition -- and as part of the CURRENTS exhibition.  



Axle also had a copy of their newest portrait book -- E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon -- featuring my photo:

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