Tuesday, 31 March 2026

AUGMENTED REALITY -- Denver

Tanya and I exhibited my sculptures at the Denver Museum of Art by using AUGMENTED REALITY on March 29, 2026:

View in Augmented Reality
PaperPose

March 16, 2026 -- GALLERY
View in Augmented Reality
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AUGMENTED REALITY Sculptures:



In front of the real plaster sculpture by Fred Wilson


In the Kirkland Museum


In the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art Galleries
of the Denver Art Museum






Roxanne Swentzell "Mud Woman Rolls On"





Vance Kirkland painting
in the Kirkland Galleries


Behind two sculptures by Gail Folwell,
 "Tête-à-Tête"


Next to "Big Sweep" in front of the Denver Art Museum,
 by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen


Tanya did all AR Bombing with her iPhone.  Previously Tanya and I had guerilla-arted before, like when we dropped a couple of my books -- FINISH MY FIGURE DRAWINGS -- at Art Basel 2018 in Miami:

Side Busting at Art Basel 2018
Tanya in the orange top,
left my book in the entrance hallway of Art Basel in 2018


AUGMENTED REALITY POSTS
NOTE:  The AUGMENTED REALITY packages can be hosted, and seen, on GITHUB -- I posted this Alien Javelina AR on GITHUB


PREVIOUS AR

I have previously attempted to place my "sculptures" in public places with AUGMENTED REALITY, but with less success:

May 11, 2021
John Tollett placed my AR "sculpture"
in front of the ART VAULT gallery in Santa Fe,
but the Adobe Aero app made it too small


Augmented Reality -- Adobe Aero app
Tanya placed my AR "sculpture"
in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden
in 2021


Back in 2011 the attempt to place my piece in the Sculpture Garden of the Albuquerque Museum was painful.  We could not get exact enough with GPS, and the Wi-Fi bandwidth was not very strong at that time:

January 16, 2011
My AR "sculpture" in 2011
just showed up as a white rectangle

Digital Presentation at Opening
21st Century Schizoid Sculpture
The Android phone is moving the Lazy Susan,
 to turn the virtual skull on the tablet,
 to show off Augmented Reality


MOCK UPS

These below are just photo-bashes of what a good AUGMENTED REALITY experience would look like:

April 27, 2021
The idea was to surround
 the ART VAULT gallery in Santa Fe
with my AR Sculptures

April 13, 2021
My AR "sculptures" next to the real sculpture
by Bill Barrett in front of the Albuquerque Museum

March 9, 2021
A mock up of my AR "sculpture"
in front of my favorite sculpture in Albuquerque
by Rico Eastman


VR GALLERIES

I ought to be able to place the same 3D sculptures in a VIRTUAL REALITY Gallery, like I've done before with Spatial.io back in 2022:

Spatial 3D Maya Gallery online
My sculpture and drawing gallery
 on Spatial.io

December 16, 2021
My previous VR gallery on Cryptovoxels
no longer works

Krrrland
21st Century Schizoid Sculpture
Krrrland
at the Tucson Sculpture Festival 2015



MINDAR

IDEALLY I would like to place my AUGMENTED REALITY 3D sculptures throughout the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden.  I would want to use various architectural locations as "targets," which the smart phone could read and then place the 3D AR sculpture in that exact spot.

8th Wall was a software that would place AR objects over targets.  They went out of business on February 28, 2026 -- however now they are OPEN SOURCE.

Moreover I do not want the viewer to have to download an app to do this.  They could just scan a QR code (or swipe over an NFC tag) and link into an AUGMENTED REALITY space -- as one can do with
MINDAR (I could not get it to work) -- as we saw in the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION in Santa Fe in 2025.  That way a visitor can see many AR "sculpture" Easter Eggs while strolling through the Sculpture Garden at the museum.






Moreover can also make 3D GLB files from scanning real sculptures and objects from the real world -- like we did with the iPhone using Lidar:

I should be able to generate better GLB files
by training with AI 
AUGMENTED REALITY


ODD THOUGHTS:
  • Maybe we could get four "targets" from the four sides of a Sculpture, and place different AR objects around the sculpture on the north, east, south and west sides
  • Maybe we can use the hologram screen slide show as a slide show of AR "targets"
  • Maybe we can have a collaborative AR sculpture exhibition, with GLB sculptures from different artists, at the Albuquerque Art Museum
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DENVER BEFORE

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