Wind over Water: Making Visible the Invisible

Concerned about the complexity of ecological problems - poorly communicated to the public by the mass media - a team of artists aim to present new public space possibilities through mass-participatory augmented reality experiences. Wind over Water provides a full and diverse media experience designed to engage the public with environmental ideas and concepts at varying layers. For SIGGRAPH Asia, Wind over Water will allow a large number of participants to simultaneously explore Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor and to interact with a 3D computational simulation and narrative in a responsive, geo-locative, markerless AR visual and sonic experience. Wind over Water connects participants' perspectives on space, memory and imagination with a mass-participatory augmented reality fantasy. Recognising the importance of multi-level interdisciplinary collaboration through consultation with local experts, Wind over Water development begins with geographical and historical research and soundwalks leading to the identification of sites and development of geo-locative media. Wind over Water is an initiative from a small international collective of artists and researchers from 2 continents: Australasia and North America; and 3 disciplines: media art, sonics and mobile geo-reality. Wind over Water is designed to "explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and trans-disciplinary possibilities."*

http://arden.aut.ac.nz/portfolio/nigel.jamieson
www.andreapolli.com
Nigel Jamieson's (New Zealand) research centres on dynamic data visualisation of complex systems, virtual and augmented reality applications and mobile geo-reality. Andrea Polli (USA) creates public media and ecology art works internationally, focusing on the role of art in the understanding of environment She is joined by members of her lab, the Social Media Workgroup (SMW) socialmedia.carc.unm.edu

Nigel Jamieson
Auckland University of Technology


Andrea Polli
Eric Geusz (Student Assistance)
University of New Mexico