Canonical Examples

MoMar

Published

Context

An art museum.

Design concept

Artists created digital artwork that could only be viewed in a specific Jackson Pollock gallery in MOMA, New York. Visitors who downloaded the MoMar-app could point their phones at paintings and would see them overlaid with digital artwork as a form of protest against elitist art culture.

Experiential qualities and related concepts

Critical, focus, place-specific.

Augmentation modality

Visual.

Technical options

Handheld device.

Prototyping techniques

AR toolkit.
Third-person techniques.

Source

Gizmodo.

 

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