Abstract
Below Victory is an expanded Digital Heritage project based on ground-penetrating radar scans of Gallo-Roman temple ruins hidden since Antiquity below Place de la Victoire in the center of Clermont-Ferrand, France. The new technology’s sounding dataset was the foundation for site-specific public trompe l’oeil, augmented reality, generative animation, and hundreds of design experiments. The Memoria Hospitis components were presented as surreal 3D renderings of the ruins overlaid with AR philosophical texts and technological data that could only be revealed to visitors through a scientific scanning gesture.
Developed and realized during the pandemic’s peak years, augmented reality’s immateriality and ability to unveil secrets provided the ideal media for the artwork’s larger themes—an untouchable, hidden and forgotten public site is interpreted by an artist 10,000 kilometres away using a technology that reveals through invisible echoes. In Below Victory, AR becomes Augmented Unreality, an overlay onto a ghostly resonance imagined into fantasies through artistic telepresence.
Developed and realized during the pandemic’s peak years, augmented reality’s immateriality and ability to unveil secrets provided the ideal media for the artwork’s larger themes—an untouchable, hidden and forgotten public site is interpreted by an artist 10,000 kilometres away using a technology that reveals through invisible echoes. In Below Victory, AR becomes Augmented Unreality, an overlay onto a ghostly resonance imagined into fantasies through artistic telepresence.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Hong Kong |
| Publisher | Videotage |
| Media of output | Online |
| Size | 100+ Images/Videos |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Mar 2023 |
| Event | Foundation – a Web3 Media Art Festival - distant.gallery, Hong Kong, China Duration: 17 Mar 2023 → 16 Sept 2023 https://distant.gallery/foundation-festival https://www.videotage.org.hk/programme/foundation-a-web3-media-art-festival |