Augmented Reality Concept Prototype

Untitled is an experiment in human perception and augmented reality. Visible light is usually represented in the center of a graph of the electromagnetic spectrum. This graph reveals the narrow bandwidth of electromagnetic radiation humans can actually perceive. Cameras and antennas can be calibrated to sense all other wavelengths. This dependence on the apparatus for sensing the remainder of electromagnetic radiation exposes both the voyeuristic nature of man as he reaches closer to the all-seeing God and the rather limited scope that is nature to him. Humans require an exterior minds eye to sense the world in the age of information. Imagination is replaced by the screen and speaker.

Humans now seem to require an apparatus to see and understand the exterior world. This in turn, manipulates the minds eye to produce images and sounds in terms of cinema, television, radio, and now the computer. Americans flock to television, the Internet, cell phones, and iPods: all screen based media. The central nervous system is directly extended into communications systems. Humans are part of a synthetic landscape, a virtual map of the Earth provided by GPS.

This experiment is minimal in contrast, it illuminates the virtual GPS surface that constantly surrounds humans but is otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

In Untitled, the artist roams the landscape wearing a visor fitted with LCD screens, camera, and a laptop computer inside a backpack. Belovarich investigates the impact of visible light on the virtual GPS grid, his perceptual awareness extended by the technical apparatus.

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