Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images

"Captured (for Hrant)"
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Invisible Istanbul: "Captured (for #RSF_RWB)"
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Invisible Istanbul: "Captured (cannon balls)"
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Invisible Istanbul: "Captured (cannon balls)"
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Invisible Istanbul: "Captured (cannons)"
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Invisible Istanbul: "Captured (cannons)"
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Invisible Istanbul: Captured (for Abdul Hamid II)
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This augmented reality work series is located in and around the buildings of the Istanbul Biennial. Inspired by Pedrosa and Hoffmann's curatorial statement referencing the works and methodology of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, these artworks overlay simple everyday objects and forms onto real spaces to "explore the relationship between art and politics" in the new medium of Augmented Reality (AR), which by its very nature is "both formally innovative and politically outspoken."

The AR artworks are geolocated via GPS into the exhibits of the 12th Istanbul Biennial to "push the themes decidedly further" and relate them to contemporary political and social issues. To cite Pedrosa and Hoffmann, "In response to those today who devalue the exhibition as the primary format of artistic and curatorial expression," the AR artworks "advocate for renewed attention to the importance of the exhibition itself."

The difference is that with AR technology, participation is the decision of the artist, not the curator.