Mark Skwarek: AR Intervention

Mark Skwarek: AR Intervention 
OPENING ON: FRIDAY, March 1ST 7:00 - 11:00PM. 
ON VIEW UNTIL March 25TH, 2013.

Mark Skwarek showcases a series of recent augmented reality interventions created across the globe. These confrontational, politically charged works are created by the artist and his community. Skwarek acts as instigator and organizer for the community at large and several of the pieces feature an array of contributors joining arms in a virtual protest. For this exhibition, Skwarek will release a new work in the form of an App, createAR, that lets the public create Augmented Reality objects of their choosing at any location.

From the 1st augmented reality in North Korea to the theft of the British Museum's Parthenon Marbles the work will test the meaning of public and private space in digital age. Augmented reality gives artists the ability to create without many limitations and the AR Intervention show points to this future.

Special Events

Saturday March 9th 2013, 7pm to 10pm
Artist Mark Skwarek will brave an augmented reality flood which has spread across WIlliamsburg in a homemade boat. Audience members will have the opportunity to participate with mobile devices.

Mark Skwarek is a new media artist working to bridge the gap between virtual reality and the real world by using augmented reality. He is a founding member of the artist augmented reality group manifest.AR. Skwarek earned his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design's Digital Media Department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University Polytech where he is full time faculty. Reviews of his artwork have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Boing Boing, WIRED, the Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, NPR, BBC, the art blog and Leonardo. Skwarek has exhibited in various venues, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ISEA; Dumbo Arts Festival; UCLA Digital Grad Gallery; Devotion Gallery, the CyberArts Festival; the Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, the Zero1 Biennial and the Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. Upcoming shows include FACT in Liverpool England, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.