The DAMON (Loren) BakAR(er) Gallery Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting 2021!

The DAMON (Loren) BakAR(er) Gallery Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting 2021! It happened! We cut the ribbon and the gallery is finally open!!!!

This Gallery is dedicated to Damon Loren Baker, Pioneer of the field of Augmented Reality Art (among many other things).

Damon is responsible for some of the first works of augmented and virtual art. He often did this with sound. The Damon BakAR Gallery is an augmented reality gallery that can be seen by people w a smartphone and a proper net connection. Damon pioneered this very form of art. This gallery will only show Augmented Reality Art that pushes what the medium can do. Damon’s pioneering work in AR will now live on through shows and live events (sound anyone???) of future generations of AR creators. We plan to have regular shows so please check back regularly.

The DAMON (Loren) BakAR(er) Gallery is run by NYU’s Mobile AR Lab. Damon was instrumental in setting up The Mobile AR Lab and he was a Resident with the lab where we created the world’s first “Augmented Ensemble”.

This is the beta build of the gallery and we plan to build this out a bit but it works and is live now!!! Our show is live when all the other NYU shows were shut down due to COVID Omicron. The future is uncertain and the timing of this gallery could not be better!

The DAMON (Loren) BakAR(er) Gallery actively accepts AR ART curatorial proposals. We love AR (sound) + all AR art so feel free to reach out.

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Video Soundtrack: Performance by Artist: Damon Loren Baker

Song: Birth Pangs [excerpt]

Recorded at Gerrard Art Space (Eclec~Tic~Toc Fest, Vol. 1 – Night 2), July 15, 2017. http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot…

Damon Loren Baker TWITTER https://mobile.twitter.com/damonloren…

The Mobile AR Lab @ NYU run by Mark Skwarek Apply for shows here http://mobilearlab.bxmc.poly.edu/

Brendan Scully of Metaio becomes Mobile AR Lab’s 2nd Research Partner!

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Brendan Scully is Managing Director at the NYC offices of Metaio, Inc., the world’s leading Augmented Reality Company. He oversees Metaio’s corporate accounts, strategic partnerships, and project development activities in North America.

At MAGNET, Scully is advising the Mobile AR Lab in best practices for AR application development and design. In his view, augmented reality demands that mobile developers consider the physical, political and social environments in which they deploy their applications. By taking a humanistic approach, he believes that AR applications can enhance, delight and inform human experience while avoiding situations of distraction, addiction or control.

Prior to 2010, Scully worked at Tiltfactor Lab, researching humanistic games and critical play.

Scully received a Bachelor of Science in Augmented Reality from Dartmouth College.

Contact: www.twitter.com/bscully

Sander Veenhof becomes The Mobile AR Lab’s 1st official RESEARCH PARTNER!

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Sander Veenhof becomes the Mobile AR Lab @ NYU’s 1st official RESEARCH PARTNER!  [part of the BXMC]

Sander Veenhof is one of the most influential artists/researchers to have ever worked with augmented reality. Veenhof’s work has been  written about in the New York Times, shown by MoMA and as an official entry into Venice Biennale.  Among Veenhof’s achievements was the”#1 Designer in the Netherlands” award which he received in 2013 from the Netherland’s government.

Google’s Cardboard: the highly accessible OpenGL web environment to create the experiences!

Recently Veenhof used Google Glass to show where surveillance was taking place in public and private locations. 

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Stay tuned for Veenhof’s NYC release of his roller coaster ride!