Title
Dose

Artist
Will Pappenheimer and Virta-Flaneurazine

About
At various locations of the Digital Art Weeks, Dose is an invisible hallucinatory experience perceived through the user’s mobile device. Originally developed through the artist pharmaceutical, Virta-Flaneurazine, the psychic journey lasts for about 15 minutes before it reaches a completely enclosed ephemeral space. The optimal experience is initiated by licking the large white pill shape on a mobile device that appears when the QR code is scanned from within the LAYAR application.

Placement
Diverse Markets in Hong Kong:

Cat Street (Antiques Market)
Dried Seafood Street and Tonic Food Street
Gough Street (Designer Homeware)
Li Yuen Street East and West (Fashion)
Jardine's Crescent (Street Market)
Chun Yeung Street (Wet Market)

Biography
Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and educator (Pace University, NY) working in new media, performance and installation, with an interest in institutional or spatial intervention and the altered meaning of things. Has exhibited internationally in shows at the ICA and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Exit Art, Postmasters, and the DUMBO Arts Festival in New York, San Jose Museum of Art, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, FILE, Sao Paulo, BR, Xi’an Academy of Art Gallery in China and recently at LACMA, Los Angeles, San Francisco MOMA, FACT, the Foundation for Art and Technology in Liverpool, UK and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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Title
ARt Critic Face Matrix

Artist
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU)

About
The self-referential “ARt Critic Face Matrix” surrounds you with animated art critic faces, ranging from skeptical to outrage. It was originally created for “We AR in MoMA,” the path-breaking AR intervention at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2010. In 2011 it was updated with animated faces as the “ARt Critic Face Matrix (reloaded).” It is permanently installed in fine art museums the world over, such as MoMA NY, ICA Boston, MoCA Los Angeles, Tate Liverpool, Hayward Gallery London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Placement
Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre

Biography
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU) is a visual artist developing the dramatic and poetic capabilities of various forms of virtual and augmented reality as a medium for exploring social and cultural issues in site-specific artworks. She has degrees in engineering design from Stanford and MIT and a fine arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She exhibits internationally in venues such as the Istanbul Biennial and Ars Electronica. She has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, MIT, IAMAS and the Japan Foundation, won the IBM Innovation Award for Art and Technology, and is part of a Rockefeller Cultural Innovation grant. In 2014 she will be guest professor at the NTU Singapore.

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Title
Transformation (Sunflowers)

Artist
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU)

About
Sunflowers have become the symbol of renewable energy and green development. They also happen to grow high enough to hide cars. Have you ever tried to photograph a beautiful city, only to find that your photograph shows only the parked cars? What would the city look like if the streets were turned into flower beds? View the virtual sunflowers and notice how much more you see of the city when cars are not blocking your view! Produced by pilotraum01 e.V. as part of "overtures Zeitraueme," a project series on sustainability, curated by Serafine Lindemann (artcircolo) and Christian Schoen (kunst | konzepte).

Placement
SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Hotel (Lobbies looking toward streeet)

Biography
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU) is a visual artist developing the dramatic and poetic capabilities of various forms of virtual and augmented reality as a medium for exploring social and cultural issues in site-specific artworks. She has degrees in engineering design from Stanford and MIT and a fine arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She exhibits internationally in venues such as the Istanbul Biennial and Ars Electronica. She has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, MIT, IAMAS and the Japan Foundation, won the IBM Innovation Award for Art and Technology, and is part of a Rockefeller Cultural Innovation grant. In 2014 she will be guest professor at the NTU Singapore.

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Title
Flotsam & Jetsam

Artist
John Craig Freeman (USA)

About
Flotsam & Jetsam is a virtual meta-commentary on global warming, expected sea level rise and the spread of plastic debris field gyres. Flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo. Jetsam is part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore by the Coriolis Effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction. Built for smart phone mobile devices, Flotsam & Jetsam is a clarion call for the denizens of the world to take seriously the science of climate change and other abuses to the global environment by envisioning the debris left by storm surge and other manifestations of the incoming tide.

Placement
Diverse Streets along the Water Front areas of Hong Kong Island

Biography
John Craig Freeman's work has exhibited internationally including in Belfast, Los Angeles, Beijing, Zurich, New York, Warsaw, Kaliningrad, Bilbao, Boston, Havana, Calgary, Mexico City, and London. He is an NEA fellow with a BA, UCSD and MFA, CU Boulder. He is an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College.

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Title
Fly-By

Artist
Lalie S. Pascual (CHE)

About
Flyby portrays a flock of birds bringing messages from across the sea in the shape of other lands and possibilities. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's locomotion flight studies, images of water and geographical lake view were fragmented, reconstructed and animated into flight sequences which balance between the imaginary and the real. Traveling between the past, present and an imaginative future, the work aims to also blur up beginnings and endings, and question our world from another point of view.

Placement
Sky above Victoria Peak

Biography
Digital media artist Lalie S. Pascual received her MA in Fine Art at Central St. Martins University of the Arts in London, having being previously trained at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. Additional academic background includes a Master of Science in Management from Boston University. Her practice explores boundaries between the natural and the digital worlds through digital processes that synthesize images and video footage into new “states of existence”. She exhibited with Monika Bobinska Gallery, London, Gallery Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, the Boston Cyberarts, Boston, the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, and the FPAC gallery, Boston.

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Title
The Butterfly Lovers

Artist
Lily & Honglei (USA/CHN)

 
About
The Augmented Reality installation is derived from Lily & Honglei’s animated short The Butterfly Lovers. Reinterpreting Chinese folk tale Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingta (梁山伯与祝英台) or The Butterfly Lovers, the work develops traditional aesthetics with new media art. The series of paintings depict scenarios from the original story such as “Seeing off for Eighteen Miles” and “Meeting at the Balcony.” With dreamlike dislocation, the work depicts isolated protagonists, metaphorically implying the vulnerability and resistance of Chinese cultural spirit during the process of westernization.

Placement
Hong Kong Park

Biography
Based in New York and Beijng, Lily & Honglei work as an artist collective. Utilizing traditional painting and animation, as well as new media such as virtual reality and augmented reality, Lily & Honglei create ‘visual fables’ intertwining current social issues with cultural heritages.Lily & Honglei’s works exhibit at numerous international and national venues, including Museum of Art and Design in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center New York, Zero1 Biennial in San Jose CA, New York Artist Residency Studios Foundation Gallery, Shanghai University Gallery in China, FILE-Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, Queens Museum of Art in New York.

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Title
Mad Drummer

Artist
Lily & Honglei (USA/CHN)

About
Mi Heng is a reputed scholar in ancient China. By beating a drum naked in the imperial court and mocking officials in power, he becomes subject of a famous drama, and is praised as the most courageous intellectual throughout Chinese history. This figure repeatedly appears in our work, including animated short film and virtual reality art project. Based on an image sequence extracted from Fourth Cry of the Monkey, the animated virtual sculpture deploying mobile phone augmented reality technology, is performing timelessly at Chinatown of Los Angles as a spiritual symbol of Chinese culture.

Placement
Chater Garden

Biography
Based in New York and Beijng, Lily & Honglei work as an artist collective. Utilizing traditional painting and animation, as well as new media such as virtual reality and augmented reality, Lily & Honglei create ‘visual fables’ intertwining current social issues with cultural heritages.Lily & Honglei’s works exhibit at numerous international and national venues, including Museum of Art and Design in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center New York, Zero1 Biennial in San Jose CA, New York Artist Residency Studios Foundation Gallery, Shanghai University Gallery in China, FILE-Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, Queens Museum of Art in New York.

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Title
South East Flies the Peacock

Artist
Lily & Honglei (USA/CHN)

About
The work assembles images of some most influential folktales of China, including Southeast Flies the Peacock, The Peony Pavilion, Lady White Snake, Death of GeneralYang Zaixing,and Cowherd and Weaving Maid, featuring tragic romances as well as epic heroes/heroins admired by Chinese people from generation to generation. In contrast to the the spiritual, legendary figures in the foreground, which are designed as ‘virtual sculptures’ through Augmented Reality application on mobile phone, the background is set at a highly commercial area of a metropolitan city – China Town. By comparing virtual and physical, ancient and modern, east and west, we question the longevity of Chinese culture’s spiritual traditions in the process of capitalization.

Placement
Hong Kong Park

Biography
Based in New York and Beijng, Lily & Honglei work as an artist collective. Utilizing traditional painting and animation, as well as new media such as virtual reality and augmented reality, Lily & Honglei create ‘visual fables’ intertwining current social issues with cultural heritages. Lily & Honglei’s works exhibit at numerous international and national venues, including Museum of Art and Design in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center New York, Zero1 Biennial in San Jose CA, New York Artist Residency Studios Foundation Gallery, Shanghai University Gallery in China, FILE-Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, Queens Museum of Art in New York.

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Title
Orators, Rostrums, & Propoganda Stands

Artist
John Craig Freeman (USA)

About
Based of the work of Gustav Gustavovich Klucis, including designs for Screen-radio Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands from 1922. Each of the Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands display a black and white animation from a contemporary mass uprising, juxtaposed with frames from the Odessa Steps scene of Sergei Eisenstein‘s historic Battleship Potemkin film. When touched, the virtual objects play sound from the uprising. The stands call up both the resurgence and nostalgia of current worldwide political idealism as they reimagine the museum plaza in the function of the public square.

Placement
Statue Square (around the Centograph)

Biography
John Craig Freeman's work has exhibited internationally including in Belfast, Los Angeles, Beijing, Zurich, New York, Warsaw, Kaliningrad, Bilbao, Boston, Havana, Calgary, Mexico City, and London. He is an NEA fellow with a BA, UCSD and MFA, CU Boulder. He is an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College.

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Title
Water Lily Invasion - An Apocalyptic Garden

Artist
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU)

About
As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive flora or active fauna. One such form has been observed to follow the route of the Star Ferries between Hong Kong and Kowloon. It is hypothesized that it feeds off energy, not only that dissipated by the ferryboats, but also that of the human cargo and their electronic devices. Apparently sensitive to the mediated human gaze, a seemingly small, innocuous water lily can enlarge to engulf viewers who focus it in the display of their mobile app. Until now viewers have reported feeling no effects other than a temporary fibrillation. Scientists worry however that future mutations could cross the boundar between insentient plant and a sentient, perhaps even carnivorous life form.

Placement
Central Pier (Star Ferry Area)

Biography
Tamiko Thiel (USA/DEU) is a visual artist developing the dramatic and poetic capabilities of various forms of virtual and augmented reality as a medium for exploring social and cultural issues in site-specific artworks. She has degrees in engineering design from Stanford and MIT and a fine arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She exhibits internationally in venues such as the Istanbul Biennial and Ars Electronica. She has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, MIT, IAMAS and the Japan Foundation, won the IBM Innovation Award for Art and Technology, and is part of a Rockefeller Cultural Innovation grant. In 2014 she will be guest professor at the NTU Singapore.

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Title
AR Float Parade

Artist
Curious Minds + Students of the Singapore Polytechnic

About: Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind. The DAW AR Float Parade is the first of its kind and celebrates the coming of age for Augmented Reality art. The AR Float Parade extends what was began in real space in the 1920s with the first balloon parade inspired by legendary puppet maker, Anthony Frederick Sarg and promoted by Macy’s Department store in New York City. At that time, the large balloon floats were produced by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and seen by millions over a period of a few hours as the parade marched down crowded city streets where people gathered. Today, the scenario is different and with the 1st AR Float Parade ever, history is being changed. The Balloon Floats for this parade are no longer produced in reality by rubber company but by creative industry students at the Singapore Polytechnic using computer tools and mobile devices.

Placement:
On route around Hong Kong Island:

Salisbury Road > Canton Rd > Haiphong Road > Nathan Rd > Salisbury Rd

Biography
The guiding principle of the international arts group Curious Minds is simply to remain healthy and curious. Since their founding in 2010, Curious Mind has expanded with a “no names needed” approach with members residing in Berlin, Montreal, Warsaw, Zurich, and Tokyo. The group has produced a diverse number of art objects in the form of witty games, viewing cards, bedtime stories, and a variety of easy music works. Several works are now available for purchase at museum stores. Because their work lies outside of the periphery of the art market and created to be “played”, the group has avoiding the beaten path and focuses on exhibiting in institutions for presentation of sciences and design. Curious Minds has exhibited in museums and galleries in North America, Asia and Europe.

People are Singapore's most valuable resource. Singapore Polytechnic has played an important role in preparing Singapore workforce from the early days of Singapore's independence. Looking back, one would marvel at the Polytechnic's early advocators who had the foresight to underscore the importance of polytechnic education in the country's progress. Most impressive of all is that polytechnic education has stayed relevant to development of Singapore through its generations of staff and students. In many ways, Singapore Polytechnic's development parallels that of Singapore's. Thus its name, practical and functional at the time of inception, has been most appropriately selected for the icon of technical training in this part of the world. Over the years, it has transformed from being a pacesetter to a trendsetter and from making history to defining the future.