As part of the opening day program of DEMO-, an exhibition of site-specific virtual art in the public space of Frankfurt am Main, the symposium ARtificial Realities was held in the Crespo Studio in Frankfurt –– a collaboration between WAVA and the NRW-Forum, where the second edition of the AR Biennale will open on May 13th under the title HYBRID NATURE (see for more information).
PANEL IV
Facing Barricades
Artists Tony Cokes and Flaka Haliti in conversation with Ben Livne Weitzman (WAVA)
DEMO- Augmented Exhibition
With works by Morehshin Allahyari, Tony Cokes, Flaka Haliti, Ahmet Öğüt, Tamiko Thiel & /p, and Les Trucs.
The streets and squares are crucial sites for creative and political expression. From demonstrations to monuments, advertisements, graffiti, guerilla actions, and street art, public-space activations are essential for democratic thought and action. Today, with the virtual layering of data continuously feeding through our mobile devices, every physical space is also an augmented space. To mark the 175th jubilee of the Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, the first attempt to form a freely elected German parliament, DEMO- seeks to reimagine the public space by bringing the virtual “down to earth,” anchoring it in specific places and contexts, challenging the linearity and binarity of the physical.
With visual and sonic interventions, participative installations and critical monuments, DEMO- virtually occupies specific locations across Frankfurt am Main and introduces artworks of different media that take over and augment the shared public space.
All artworks are accessible on location via the WAVA app, free to download on Android and iOS until April 30th 2024.
About WAVA
DEMO- is powered by WAVA—Withstanding Audio Visual Augmentations—an emerging platform for site-specific augmented reality turning the world into an ever-changing exhibition space, developed by Ben Livne Weitzman, David Bachmann, Florian Adolph, and Grit Medea. With WAVA, artists, curators, institutions, and the broad public can easily place, share, and experience virtual artworks in specific sites and contexts, envisioning a new hybrid space that bridges the physical and virtual. Get in touch!
DEMO- was made possible through the support of the Netzwerk Paulskirche and the Cultural Office of Frankfurt am Main on the 175th anniversary of the first German National Assembly in the Paulskirche.
