Augmented Reality Artwork Vandalized – Sebastian Errazuriz

^{_{Medium: AR effect Location: New York’s Central Park Date: 2017}}

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Deface, vandalise, DDOS, breach, appropriate, override:

digital graffiti

^{What classifies as a counteraction to the corporatisation of the realm between public space and virtual space (a.k.a. social media corporations)? Where is this virtual public space? How do we experience virtual reality without being monopolised by corporate content? Social interactions take place as if they are merely a marketing play. Creativity as a virtual branding game. The ability to assemble virtual images of things that either are not physically present or are not conceived, created or considered by others -irl- in the same way. In 2017, a Snapchat X Jeff Koons augmented reality collab 3D sculpture of Koons’ famous Balloon Dog became digitally visible in New York’s Central Park. 24 hours after its online release, the artist Sebastian Errazuriz and his team from CrossLab administered a duplicate 3D AR Balloon Dog + graffiti. Connected by geo-tag to the exact coordinates, the “vandalised” AR sculpture replaces the original AR object owned by a company.}