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The 52 Card Cinema project is an exemplar of the unique architecture of cinematic pieces mapped on to the real world, made possible by AR technology. The medium of the animated image, in its wedding with the real world, loses the privileged linearity of the screen, and gives the opportunity to re-perceive cinema as the juxtaposition of its parts.

Players open up the junaio application available on the iPhone App Store and tune into the ScavengAR channel. Player's camera is on live view. This view will display a range of pre-set geo/AR tags created for the game within about 30 feet. Tags first appear as question marks. When close enough to the tags, players click question mark Geo/AR marker to collect the clue and score points.

rom October 25, 2008 until January 4, 2009 the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam was exhibiting its wonderful collection of sgraffito objects from the period 1450-1550. Sgraffito is an ancient decorative technique in which patterns are scratched into the wet clay. The Dutch plates, bowls and cooking pots are part of the Van Beuningen-De Vriese collection. The artist Joachim Rotteveel has made this archaeological collection accessible in a spectacular way using 3D reconstruction techniques from the worlds of medicine and industry, including AR application provided by the AR+RFID Lab.

The importance of technology, the coexistence of the ancient and the new and the presence of the sea as both a calming and menacing elements seem to be the fundamental ideas to the creation and development of this model-city. The city of Songdo is a challenge to human’s ability to plan a large scale construction work and, most of all, it will reflect on how urban society can be organized for people to interconnect, network and live with each other in such controlled and optimized environment. AntiVJ’s will present a visual+sonic piece exploring these ideas.

For the Paris Bercy Masters, the French Tennis Federation asked us to submit a project that would stage the entrance of the tennis players on the court.TETRA Tennis was our answer. It is video-mapping set-up, projected directly on the tennis court. Once the lights dim out, the show consists of redrawing the lines of the court in interaction with the music.Controlled with a joystick, the visual sequences can be remodeled live : the lines can vibrate, be deformed, tremble, rotate, create depth…

In the past Pablo Valbuena has worked for several international videogame and film studios investigating spatial concepts applied to virtual environments and digital architecture as a concept designer. This project focuses on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation. By using geometric forms and light, Valbuena alters multiple dimensions of space-time, creating an astounding visual experience.

For the occasion of MUTEK_10, the Old Port’s Conveyors’ Tower becomes the object of AntiVJ’s attentions, as they bring the structure back to life with mapping projections.

To explicitly articulate the conjunction between the real and virtual spaces in this work, the viewer’s virtual torch beams penetrate through the container and illuminate other viewers who are standing opposite them on other sides of the installation. This augmented reality is achieved using infra-red cameras that are positioned on each screen pointing at its respective torch operators, and the video images are rendered in real time onto each viewer’s screen so as to create the semblance of illuminating the persons opposite them. The resulting ambiguity experienced between the actual and rendered reality of the viewers’ presences in this installation, reinforce the perceptual and psychological tensions between ‘self’ and ‘other’.

his is the documentation of an interactive art installation at Symbiosis Gathering 2009, held in Camp Mather, California, Adjacent to Yosemite National Park.The installation was a mural that participants used a custom built midi controller. The mural uses augmented reality, a technique where digital information is projected onto a real world surface, in this case a painting. The painting is colored with projected light, and using photoshop, vdmx ad particle illusion software, the mural becomes interactive.

This facade projection was produced for the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (www.filmfestival.gr). It was projected on the traditional picturehouse Olympion from the 11th until 22nd November of 2009. In addition the projection was part of the opening ceremony in the Olympion via life broadcast. The story based on the festivals theme "WHY CINEMA NOW" which referred to prospective forms, functions and responsibilities of contemporary cinema.

The installation uses the whole exhibition space, and consists of 3 handheld monitors (1 cordless and 2 with cable) equipped with progressive XGA video cameras, headphones and buttons for interaction. Through these monitors the users explore the space, augmented with digital structures and spatialized sounds, and interact with them in a real-time experience.