»Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images« 
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Light Box
© Tamiko Thiel, 2011; For Hrant Dink, in Memorium. Placed in the Istanbul Biennial exhibit "Untitled (Death by Gun)" and set against Ryue Nishizawa's exhibition architecture for the Biennial.
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»Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images«, 2011
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Tamiko Thiel, 2011http://tamikothiel.com/AR/ii/images.html
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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.
Literature
Thiel, Tamiko. »Critical Interventions into Canonical Spaces: Augmented Reality at the 2011 Venice and Istanbul Biennials.« In Augmented Reality Art: From an Emerging Technology to a Novel Creative Medium, edited by Vladimir Geroimenko, 31-60. Cham: Springer, 2014.
Thiel, Tamiko. »Interview, Statement, Artwork.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 19, no. 2 (2013): 210-219.
Rackham, Melinda. »divisible Instanbul.« real time , no. 106 (December 2011/January 2012): 22-23.
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