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After three months of intensive research, development, and creative production, our resident artists have completed their original augmented reality monuments for a future Los Angeles.
Join Oxy Arts on Sunday, September 12th to view these new artworks for the first time via the 4th Wall app. Timed activations are planned for each site (information below), or stop by anytime between 11am - 2pm to view the artworks.
You're invited to travel to all four sites throughout the day. The sites are all accessible by Metro. The artworks will be hosted indefinitely in the 4th Wall app and can be viewed at any time after the launch. Instructions on how to use the app are included below.
Patrick Martinez, Homegrown
11am
Empty Lot at the NE corner of Figueroa and Arroyo Glen
Viewing location: 6144 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Joel Garcia with Meztli Projects, Astrorhizal Networks
12pm
Yaangna Park
Viewing location: 540 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Nancy Baker Cahill, Motherboard
1pm
Los Angeles City Hall
Viewing location: Grand Park, across the street from City Hall 231 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Audrey Chan, The Assata Center
2pm
LAPPL Headquarters
Viewing location: NE Corner of 8th Street and Columbia
The prompt for the artworks was to conceive an AR blueprint for a site-specific imagined future in Los Angeles, with a focus on future technologies that might transform public space. Artists were invited to choose any site in Los Angeles, and to consider how past and present social, economic, and cultural inequities, power imbalances, and other forms of subjection might operate in that space. The prompt encouraged artists to imagine a radically equitable future sited in an emergent present; and in the process to consider if and how new forms can reckon with the way monuments have historically functioned as agents of oppression.
Before you visit:
- Using wifi, download and open the free 4th Wall app. Once the app is downloaded, wifi is not required to view the artworks on location.
-When downloading the app, allow all permissions. This will activate the audio components and allow for the full experience of the artworks. 4th Wall does NOT collect any user data.
-The app is compatible with iPhones 6 and above or Androids with ARCore (iOS11 or higher).
How to view the artworks:
-Walk to the address listed for the artwork and open the app. Select “Coordinates” in the app. The app will search for the nearest artwork based on your location and direct you toward the artwork. Remember to look up, down and all around to find the piece!
-Record the experience by allowing 4th Wall to access your photos. Use the camera icons on the right of the screen to document. Your recordings will save directly to your camera roll.
-Share your photos and recordings on any social media and tag @4thwallapp @oxyarts
About the artists:
Nancy Baker Cahill
Nancy Baker Cahill is a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression.
www.nancybakercahill.com/
Audrey Chan
Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, illustrator, and educator. Her research-based projects use drawing, painting, public art, and video to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place, and identity.
www.audreychan.net/
Joel Garcia
Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator and cultural organizer with 20+ years of experience working locally and transnationally focusing on community-centered strategies. He is the co-founder of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles.
rageone.squarespace.com/
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. These works serve to evoke place and socio-economic position, and further unearth sites of personal, civic and cultural loss.
www.cjamesgallery.com/artist-...
This project is presented in conjunction with the opening of Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI at Oxy Arts-a group show, co-organized with Berggruen Institute Associate Director of Research Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, spotlighting cultural producers whose work engages emerging technologies as tools for expanding political imaginaries and blueprinting radically just, equitable futures.
This project is​​ made possible with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Learn More about the Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI Exhibition here: www.oxy.edu/events/2021/09/en...