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Assemblence By Unbrellium

This project is a fully immersive interactive augmented reality environment made ‘real’ by using light as a physical material, the aim is to structure participation and build trust between people who must sometimes suspend disbelief in order to cooperate and co-exist.

According to the artist, “Drawing on our backgrounds in architecture and design of networked urban infrastructure, Assemblance uses light to construct a semblance of physicality in which people that don’t know each other gain enough trust to collaborate on building delicate, ephemeral, luminescent structures, where intimate and hyperlocal participation becomes even more important, and the question of our responsibility and culpability towards each other is thrown up in challenging ways.”

I personally liked how interactive these artists have made the lasers used in the project. Instead of being projected onto a flat surface, the users are able to physically interact and play with the lasers in 3D. The lasers, although not completely tangible, now have the capabilities of becoming more tangible and object-like.