Augmented Illustra


Publication/Creation Date
2014
Creators/Contributors
Sander Veenhof (creator)
University Of Groningen (contributor)
Junaio (contributor)
Media Type
YouTube Clip
Persuasive Intent
Information
Discursive Type
Inventions
Description
Augmented Illustra spotlights the honorable women at the University of Groningen. In 2014, Artist Sander Veenhof discovered that the university’s portrait gallery includes only two women. To shift this historical narrative, Veenhof used the AR platform Junaio to ‘replace’ some of the paintings of honorable men with those of honorable women who have not been documented. Through Augmented Illustra, visitors are exposed to a new reality as they discover an alternative – and silenced – historical narrative.

This app demonstrates the AR category of Opening Space. In this category, digital content is integrated with actual environments to democratize locations from familiar (and limiting) meanings. Using AR in this way, places are becoming generally open to being inscribed with new perspectives and interpretations.


Read more:
Liron Efrat. REALational Perspectives: Expanding Beyond the Here-and-Now in Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Art, Leonardo, Vol. 53.4 (2020), 374-379.
HCI Platform
Carryables
Relation to Body
On
Related Body Part
Hand
Marketing Keywords
Augmented Illustra, Junaio
Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfKPeHH4HWg

Date archived
October 15 2020
Last edited
July 5 2021
How to cite this entry
Sander Veenhof. (2014). "Augmented Illustra". Fabric of Digital Life. https://fabricofdigitallife.com/Detail/objects/4944