Abstract
This chapter examines gamification through selected artworks that deploy augmented reality (AR) techniques. Gamification is approached as a form of ‘algorithmic culture’ in which algorithms can be, to varying degrees, both positively guiding or negatively coercing a user. After analyzing examples of gamification in the mobile entertainment industry, such as Snapchat and Pokémon GO, examples from contemporary media art that blend augmented reality techniques with algorithmic structures and tendencies are investigated. This research considers AR as a processual entity, rather than a discrete form or technical medium. Its interfaces are not simply dynamically engaged across the physical and the digital but entangled with social and cultural forces.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Aceti L, Rinehart R (2013) Not here not there, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, no 192
Azuma R (1997) A survey of augmented reality. In: Presence: teleoperators and virtual environments 6, vol 4. The MIT Press Journals, Cambridge, MA, pp 355–385
Benford S, Giannachi G (2011) Performing mixed reality. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Carmigniani J, Furht B (2011) Augmented reality: an overview. In: Furht B (ed) Handbook of augmented reality. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 3–46
Craig AB (2013) Understanding augmented reality: concepts and applications. Newnes
DeLanda M (2007) The expressivity of space. Can Art Mag (252):Pp.103-107
Ekman U (2012) Of the untouchability of embodiment I: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s relational architectures. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14943/5838
Freeman JC et al (2012) ManifestAR: an augmented reality manifesto. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic imaging. International society for optics and photonics. pp 82890D–82890D
Fuller M (2005) Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Geroimenko V (ed) (2014) Augmented reality art: from an emerging technology to a novel creative medium, 1st edn. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland
Juhász L, Hochmair HH (2017) Where to catch ‘em all?—a geographic analysis of Pokémon Go locations. Geo-spat Inf Sci (203):241–251
Kent J (2012) The augmented reality handbook-everything you need to know about augmented reality. Emereo Publishing
Manovich L (2006) The poetics of augmented space. Vis Commun (Sage Publications) (52):219–240
Milgram P, Kishino F (1994) A taxonomy of mixed reality visual displays. IEICE Trans Inf Syst 1321–1329 (7712)
Milgram P, Takemura H, Utsumi A, Kishino F (1995) Augmented reality: a class of displays on the reality-virtuality continuum. In: Telemanipulator and telepresence technologies, vol 2351. International Society for Optics and Photonics, pp 282–293
Ohta Y, Tamura H (eds) (2014) Mixed reality: merging real and virtual worlds. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland
Pawade D, Sakhapara A, Mundhe M, Kamath A, Dave D (2018) Augmented reality based campus guide application using feature points object detection. Int J Inf Technol Comput Sci IJITCS (Mecs Publishing) 10(5)
Peddie J (2017) Augmented reality: where we will all live. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland
Riley M, Innocent T (2014) The augmented bush walk: adaptation in crossmedia ecologies. In: Proceedings of xCoAx 2014. Universidade do Porto, Portugal, pp 234–247
Riley M, Nash A (2014) Contemplative interaction in mixed reality artworks. In: Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on electronic art. Accessed 8 May 2016. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 October–8 November 2014, pp 260–266
Skwarek M (2014) Augmented reality activism. In: Geroimenko V (ed) Augmented reality art. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 3–29
Sutherland IE (1968) A head-mounted three-dimensional display. In: Proceedings of the December 9–11, 1968, fall joint computer conference. Part I. Association for Computing Machinery, pp 757–764
Thiel T (2011) Cyber animism and augmented dreams. In: Leonardo Online Almanac. http://www.leoalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LEA_Cyber-Animism_TamikoThiel.pdf. Accessed 7 Sept 2014
Thiel T, Pappenheimer W (2013–ongoing) Mixed media artwork. First staged at FACT Gallery Liverpool. Subsequent major iterations at ISEA2014 Dubai and Virtuale Festival Switzerland. http://www.biomerskelters.com/. Accessed 18 April 2014
Thiel T (2014) Critical interventions into canonical spaces: augmented reality at the 2011 venice and Istanbul Biennials. In: Geroimenko V (ed) Augmented reality art. Springer, Cham, pp 31–60
Thiel T, Pappenheimer W (2016) Assemblage and Décollage in virtual public space. Media-N: J New Media Caucus, CAA Conference edition 2016. ISSN: 1942-017X
Woodward SL (2009) Introduction to biomes. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press
Wright R (2018a) Post-human narrativity and expressive sites: mobile ARt as software assemblage. In: Geroimenko V (ed) Augmented reality art. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, pp 357–369
Wright R (2018b) Interface is the place: augmented reality and the phenomena of smartphone–spacetime. In: Schleser M, Berry M (eds) Mobile story making in an age of smartphones. Switzerland, Palgrave Pivot, pp 117–125
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Wright, R. (2019). Defacing the ‘Balloon Dog’: Art, Algorithmic Culture and Augmented Reality. In: Geroimenko, V. (eds) Augmented Reality Games II. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15620-6_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15620-6_12
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-15619-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-15620-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)