Biggâr - approx. 300 days left to see it for real The augmented reality artwork "Biggâr" by Dutch artist Sander Veenhof is at the moment the biggest interactive virtual sculpture in the world. It consists of 7.463.185.678 virtual blocks placed in the skies around our globe, encapsulating the whole earth. Since its launch in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in November the artwork has been expanding into space 1 (virtual) meter each day. To view a part of the global sculpture, the augmented reality browser Layar is needed.
With the press of a button, viewers can interact with the work by changing the color of all of its 7.463.185.678 blocks at once, the effects of their act propagating all over world instantly, from Japan to Peru to Djibouti to Dubai. People from over a 100 countries have already played with the worldwide sculpture so far. Experiencing the work to its full extent requires some effort and openness from its viewers on a conceptual level. The full sized sculpture can never be witnessed as a whole. The infiniteness common to the virtual experience has reached a boundary because of a physical limitation. And because of the continuous expansion of its radius, the sculpture will at some point become invisible to the human eye, when having risen too high in the virtual sky to view it, transforming Biggâr into a solely conceptual augmented reality phenomenon. So if you want to see it for real, be quick! - Download "Layar AR browser" for iPhone 3GS/4 or Android platform - Search for layar "Biggar" and launch it - Look up into the sky to see a fragment of the global sculpture http://sndrv.nl/biggar _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
