A University of Saskatchewan (USask) alumnus is fusing art and science into an innovative new project that will take shape at a local gallery.
Starting this month, viewers can go to PAVED Arts to experience the Augmented Reality Experiments created by Andrei Feheregyhazi (BFA’03, MFA’17). During the course of four months, he will work toward developing a room-scale augmented reality installation in which people can immerse themselves.
At four public viewings—to be held from 4-9 pm on Jan. 25, March 1, March 29 and April 26—members of the public can come out, walk through animated 3D spaces and offer feedback on Feheregyhazi’s work so that he can tweak and enhance the viewer experience. Feheregyhazi refers to the project as offering a “progressive experience” that will change over time. For example, the Jan. 25 event will set the stage, while he expects the April 26 event to be the most impressive.
“Augmented reality is anything that digitally enhances the real word,” said Feheregyhazi, citing the Yelp app, Pokemon Go and Snapchat filters as examples.
“They take reality and they shift or augment it, and so I’ve been doing that with art.”
To promote his project at PAVED Arts, Feheregyhazi created colourful artwork featured on hand-printed cards. To augment the cards, viewers can download the Brellabot AR app—which Feheregyhazi created—from Apple’s app store or the Google Play store. Once the app is downloaded and started, a smartphone camera can be pointed at the front of the cards to bring a tree image to life in 3D.
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