Site-specific public ARt
artistic interventions in urban spaces using augmented reality (AR)
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Public art, Augmented reality, Post-production, Reprogramming, ImminenceAbstract
This article aims to discuss the use of augmented reality (AR) technologies in artistic interventions in urban spaces (site-specific public ARt), highlighting their potential in enabling large-scale public interventions, perhaps even materially im- practical ones, offering great artistic freedom to artists, considering the potential for creating three-dimensional virtual objects, expanding artistic engagement in activ- ist actions in contemporary art, and finally, questioning the institutional limits of art, insofar as it enables artistic actions that, through their insertion in public areas, question the status of conventional art institutions themselves, such as museums and galleries, or even the art system itself. Based on this framework, an analysis of the works discussed is proposed, drawing on the considerations of Bourriaud and Cancli- ni regarding the concepts of reprogramming and imminence, respectively.
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