new project, ARIS, Wednesday

 
working in teams —

Jack (JD) and Li Yun
Alexandra and Sarah
Emma, Jax and Kelven

Four theme ideas —

things that are broken
things that are lost (vestiges of a vanished time / Beverly)
vernacular (untrained) lettering, messages, signs, marks
the Beverly waterfront (Bass River around to Dane Beach and beyond)

We will go through the ARIS tutorial on Monday, with various adjustments, augmentations.
This is a three or four week exercise.
ARIS can be found here. Click on Launch the 2.0 Editor, sign up (user name and password).

Wednesday —

We travel to the Essex Shipbuilding Museum and environs.
Our bus/van leaves from the front of Hardie at 11:30am.
Be early.
Bring lunch.
Dress warm.
Boots advisable.
We'll be back by 3:10.

 

experiment (in progress)

 
Here are "trigger" images, being coded trees on the hillside behind Hardie, starting with lower trees (in vicinity of dumpster), and moving up to the right, and then left descending along the chainlink fence.

This is an experiment, and is not fully functioning at present.

afterthoughts —

believe that the bark patterns themselves may be sufficient, to differentiate 10-12 triggers. If so — will test — could get by with only a single blue dot (just to indicate center of a trigger area); alternatively, could use circular-shaped metal labels (with hole for pin or nail), as suggested by Chelsea, or some other more permanent/dependable mark that is immune to weather.

Thinking, for example, of numbered nails (nails with figures on them) —
date nails
letter nails

John McVey at aurasma : asfaltics
 

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aside
I've removed images 5-11, because I've not yet created "auras" for them. One of my primary texts is Thomas A. Clark, his In Praise of Walking. Text (marred by some typos) here.

 

Lets see if someone can find this special rock located in the park next to Hardie, it comes with a silly surprise :)

in the spirit of PIRACY, 

and it's not-so-known close ties to the North Shore area

contradictory to the old sentiment, my project allows for dead men 

to actually tell tales

PART#1
experiment #1: not so much

my first attempt at this, entitled 'cap'n low', failed. the image above is of this first experiment.
the image has no 'graphic' depicted, despite hoping the pole, bench, signage, and horizon would suffice as such. conclusion: not so much.



experiment #2: nailed it
in my second attempt, after a series of photos taken along the shore of Dane Beach, i selected an image that actually HAD  clear graphic. i.e. text.

when you click on the overlay that appears--the pirate ship--a link opens to a specific tale.




PART#2

                                         

just in case the first aura does not work and/or the weather turns poor, i made a backup

triggered by the painting of the woods on the first floor of hardie near the restrooms

this will trigger an edited etching of Captain Edward Low

Threatening another male, drink and pistol in hand

when this overlay is double tapped

Edward Low's pirate flag takes over the woods

ooooo *symbolism*

Balloon Gif

gazebo graffito

 
This image, at the gazebo on Beverly Commons, loads an overlay which, if clicked, brings viewer to an external website.

I'll need to experiment further with the overlay "actions" : it was not intuitively obvious how to make it work. I did notice that I needed to change the order (by selecting and moving within the aurasma editing space) one of the two overlay boxes.
 

one doorknob : three aspects, three triggers.

 
one of a series of experiments, to test how well a 3D object can work as a trigger. Here is same doorknob, three different orientations. Aurasma sees them as three different triggers when viewed close (on site, in library). Chelsea's iPhone read them as one trigger, when viewed from further away.

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two LC call numbers, as trigger images

 
Two LC call numbers on spine of books in Montserrat's library stacks.

aurasma app reads both as image only, but different enough to function as two separate triggers.
 

Selected writings of Charles Olson (1967)
PS 3529 L655 A6 1967

Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems (1983)
PS 3529 L655 M3 1983
 

my trigger image and overlay for the first project
http://naria-tlani.deviantart.com/art/Dripping-brish-658984065

I GOT THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL TO WORK AND ILL BE TESTING ALL MY OTHER PLACES

Site Specific Artwork

Site Specific Artworks are created to exist in a particular location. They can be sculptures, earthworks, paintings, installations, performances, and now, digital and mobile experiences.

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York, NY, installed 1981, destroyed 1989.

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York, NY, installed 1981, destroyed 1989.

Perhaps the most famous example is Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, a public artwork that inspired a legal battle. A brief account of that here.

For our purposes, site specific work deals more closely with the space that it is made for. It should in some way draw on and relate content from that location. Here are a few examples:

Copper Giloth, Labyrinth of Fables / Le Labyrinthe des Fables, GPS enabled walk/game, 2015.

Eben Kling, Kirkland Ave. Project, Mural, 2011.

Testing with 3D objects

Hello!

I did a few tests with 3D objects and Aurasma just to see what would happen!

It is a bit finicky.

The first one I tried was with my laptop, I put a gif on it using Aurasma. Aurasma alerted me that it may not work so well due to the trigger image not being very unique, but I haven't had really any difficulty getting it to work. I figured it would work well because it's flat.

I would like to get a video of it at some point to show that it works even if the laptop is moved or closed, etc. But currently just have a photo of it in the app!

He dances!

For the second, I tried a water bottle, something I figured wouldn't really work. It works, but it's finicky. You can't turn it, and you have to have it at the same view as I took the photo for the trigger image. Being a sort of at level view. If you try a bird's eye view of it or worm's eye view, or turn it much, it won't work. Still an interesting test though!

Also, kind of like the laptop, I tried using an image on a cover of a book as my trigger image, but this time I overlayed a video with sound on top of it. It worked out just as well. And can be viewed below or with the actual book. 

Emma Gallant Auarasma 2 location

Okay, so my second Aurasma is actually a set of three that are located in the Central Cemetery. The triggers are the Butman St entrance, Lucy Larcom's stone, and Rachel Thorndike's stone. These are the many trigger images in which you can use:

This is a tentative map of our route through the cemetery:

(Please note: It may take a while to find, nothing in the actual cemetery is labeled, other than the stones, so it takes a bit of guesswork to find everything)

These are all the links that can be reached though the Auras:

http://www.beverlyma.gov/departments/cemetery-department/

http://www.beverlyma.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CC-11.16-Map15-116.pdf

http://www.beverlyma.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FAMOUS-BEVERLY-BURIALS.pdf

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/lucy-larcom

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107567978

chestbrster app

http://www.fingerfunk.se/ARCB/
(get the app here)
(it seems as if they are no longer selling the t-shirts)

first project

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