UCCA Center for Contemporary Art opens augmented reality exhibition
Darren Bader, LOVE, 2019, augmented reality, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist, Acute Art, and UCCA.
BEIJING
.-UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality, a special exhibition for augmented reality (AR) art undertaken in collaboration with Acute Art, the worlds most extensive platform dedicated to the medium. Artworks will be viewable through Acute Arts app in locations around UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and at hotel and apartment community Stey-798, located just outside 798 Art Districts western entrance. Participating artists include Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Chicago), Darren Bader (b. 1978, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou), Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen), KAWS (b. 1974, Jersey City, USA), and Alicja Kwade (b. 1979, Katowice, Poland). UCCA is excited to engage with a new way of presenting art, one that has the prom
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The Eternal Wave AR: Li Nova (2019). Courtesy of the artist, Acute Art, and UCCA.
The world came to a halt. People stopped traveling. But art didn’t stand still. Weightless works using augmented reality by artists including Nina Chanel Abney, Darren Bader, Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, KAWS, and Alicja Kwade traveled from London to Beijing, erecting a creative bridge between continents. They appear in the exhibition “Mirage” at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art: the largest-ever institutional show of AR art, which includes a number of newly commissioned works.