»Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez«
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Tamiko Thiel >
»Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez«, 2010
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Tamiko Thiel, 2010http://tamikothiel.com/AR/bushwick.html#SevenPortraitsMH
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Maria Hernandez was a Bushwick activist murdered for her fight to free the area of drug use. In 1989 Bushwick Park was renamed “Maria Hernandez Park” to commemorate her memory, but the artist could not find any image of her on the Internet. This augmented reality installation uses 7 photos of various women named “Maria Hernandez,” taken randomly from the Internet and anonymized as inverse gold icons, to commemorate this “invisible” activist. The augments are geolocated on site in Maria Hernandez Park, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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