Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now

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Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now
in coordination with VPAP@PIFA
April 26^th, 6:00-8:00 pm
Van Pelt Auditorium
Philadelphia Museum of Art

the event is FREE but click here to RSVP!

What is Augmented Reality and what will an augmented future look like? Learn more from a panel of experts that includes cutting-edge artists, software developers, gaming specialists, sociologists and social historians. Following the panel discussion, attendees will reassemble outdoors for an interactive demonstration and virtual art tour that blurs the line between the real and the virtual. Augmented Reality, or AR, uses free smart phone apps that overlay 3-D images and information on top of real-time screen visuals as seen through the smart phone camera lens. The walking tour and demonstration will include site-specific AR content developed by artists to interact with locations and landmarks along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Opening Remarks
Gary Steuer – Chief Cultural Officer of Philadelphia; Director, Office of Arts, Culture &Creative Economy

Moderator
Dr. Mimi Sheller – Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University

Panelists
Deb Boyer – Public historian and Project Manager, Sajara and the PhillyHistory project

Dr. Paul Diefenbach – Associate Professor, Digital Media, Co-founder of RePlay Lab, Drexel University

John Craig Freeman – Artist, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston

Chris Manzione – Artist, Founder of the Virtual Public Art Project

Josh Marcus – Software developer,  Technical Lead for Decision Tree

Mark Skwarek – New media artist

*Following the event Chris Manzione will lead a Virtual Art Walking Tour along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.  Original AR artwork will be on view as part of Breadboard’s city-wide VPAP@PIFA project in partnership. Newer models of iPhone and Android smart phones will be needed to view the art work.

Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now is a Breadboard production in coordination with the Philadelphia Science Festival , Philly Tech Week and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.