Miami Art Week's Largest Outdoor Exhibition Is Invisible To You
December 1, 2015
Exhibition #AUGMENTED
On view at the SATLELLITE ART FAIR, North Miami Beach, Dec 1 though 6, 2015
Antarctic icebergs floating on the ocean off the sandy shore, a lenticular accordion sculpture stretching across two city blocks, words from "Jack and the Beanstalk" spiraling up as far as eyes can see into the clouds… Spark Art Management presents an outdoor exhibition of digital art, set in the landscape of North Miami Beach.
Titled “AUGMENTED” and curated by Seol Park, the exhibit showcases inspiring artistic visions taking shape at the intersection of art and technology, reality and imagination, physical and digital, and narrative and poetry. Spark invited seasoned American and international artists whose critically-acclaimed careers are anchored in the physical realm through paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multi-disciplinary installations, and asked each to conceive original digital art to "augment" the urban and natural landscapes of North Miami Beach. The participating artists' responses to this proposition are as thought-provoking and ambitious as they are poetic and lyrical.
The artworks are placed at various GPS points around the fair's 6-block area—between the beach and Collins Avenue, and between 72nd and 75th streets. These artworks exist in the realm of Augmented Reality (AR) and are not visible to the naked eye: they emerge only on viewers' smart phones through a free AR app (LayAR). Visitors can snap photos of the AR artwork views and share them via social media.
The exhibit aims to offer a refreshing counterpoint to the many location-agnostic, from-one-wall-to-another and from-this-tent-to-another art that dominates the content offered at today's commercial art fair scene.
HARP OF THE GIANT (2015), by Richard Humann
Neo-conceptual artist Richard Humann frequently employs words and letters into his installations. "Harp of the Giant" is a virtual beanstalk, as in the classic tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The beanstalk is comprised of words and codes, interwoven all the way up into the clouds. Later in the story, after Jack has stolen many items from the Giant that lives in the clouds with his wife, he attempts to steal the “harp of the giant” that sings beautiful songs to him. The harp represents technology, art, music, and humanity. It is a combination of it all. It is autonomous, yet at the same time is beholden to its master, the giant. In this respect, our technological creations are both the beanstalk, born from “magic beans,” and the harp itself. We are also both Jack and the giant as well. Master and slave, landlord and thief.
Link to article:
https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/3342-miami-art-weeks-largest-outdoor-exhibition-is-invisible-to-you