A lot of researching the Armory building informed my art process. Built in 1936 originally for the National Guard’s use as a place for military training, but now a place for art making on the Virginia Tech campus. It was also many other things inbetween such as a musical performance hall, and high school gymnasium.

I used Blender to design the 3D assets, Illustrator, and Photoshop for the 2D assets. They were then imported to Unity. The 2D assets were converted to Sprites. I chose Google’s ARCore framework because of its Geospatial API that accurately pins digital content to physical location anywhere in the world.

I chose augmented reality as my medium of expression for different reasons.

1. Interactivity and Engagement: I want people to have a sense of immersion when viewing my art and become participants in it, not just viewers.
2. Anywhere, Anytime Art: I use AR to attract people to buildings and other physical spaces. I aspire to scale this work to different buildings using Google Geospatial API in Unity.
3. Recontextualization and Remixing: This art piece is about the Armory building, future iterations would be about attracting people to business places, marketing products, and promoting tourism.
4. Ephemeral and Mutable: I want my art and designs to evolve as the space, events, products, etc. evolve.
5. Technological Advancements: Part of the future of computing will be be spatial.