Augmented Reality, Adelin Schweitzer (France)
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Name: Adelin Schweitzer
Project: Augmented Reality
Year: 2008

Concept

First of all, to apprehend this proposal in its globality it is advisable to leave the postulate which there does not exist that very little of differences between scientific analysis and artistic research. With the advent of new technologies, it is the border between these two universes which tend to disappear while at the same time the artist has tools allowing him to call in question the sensible universe such as we know it.

The project « Augmented Reality » was built on the geographical, economic, and social problems raised by the postulate of « Cities One the Edge ». This is why it can be considered like a kind of comparative study carried out in various towns of Europe.

Augmented reality is a technique which aims at supplementing our perception of the real-world, while adding to it of the fictitious elements nonperceptible naturally. This technology offers opportunity of using its experiment of the sensitive world to rediscover it, enriched by virtual elements.

While working with the augmented reality concept and with through the development of an entirely portable man/machine interface, this project will seek to question the human being on its perception of reality and the constraints which this one imposes to him. He thus seeks to draw up a cartography making it possible to explore the various forms of answers brought by the public.

This project appeals, for one part, with one of the concepts founder of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, « la territorialisation/déterritorialisation ». Territorialiser, it is to transform a potential into material for a use in a constraining space. Déterritorialiser, it is to divert a material of its initial use to return it, potentially, free of the constraint, or deinsane.

In this context Augmented Reality could then be a machine at « déterritorialiser » the individual. A machine thanks to which the human being could be freed from the constraints imposed by these directions on reality.

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