- Manal Abu-Shaheen
- Vahap Avşar
- Jesus Benavente and Felipe Castelblanco
- Brian Caverly
- Kerry Downey
- Magali Duzant
- Golnaz Esmaili
- Mohammed Fayaz
- Kate Gilmore
- Jonah Groeneboer
- Bang Geul Han and Minna Pöllänen
- Dave Hardy
- Sylvia Hardy
- Shadi Harouni
- Janks Archive
- Robin Kang
- Kristin Lucas
- Carl Marin
- Eileen Maxson
- Melanie McLain
- Shane Mecklenburger
- Lawrence Mesich
- Freya Powell
- Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
- Alan Ruiz
- Samita Sinha and Brian Chase
- Barb Smith
- Monika Sziladi
- Alina Tenser
- Trans-Pecos with 8 Ball Community, E.S.P. TV, and Chillin Island
- Mark Tribe
- Sam Vernon
- Max Warsh
- Jennifer Williams
In her practice, Kristin Lucas has focused on conditions of impending change in contemporary life that perpetuate at different scales: from the position of the connected technology user who is perpetually on the brink of incompatibility amid endless micro-changes and updates, to works that anticipate longer-range impending change, related to climate change at a macro scale. For her new project Dance with flARmingos Lucas has collaborated with 21 national and international artists to create 3D augmented reality (AR) works that are geolocated or virtually positioned to different locations in and around the Queens Museum.
Drawing parallels between the phantom presence of augmented reality and equally intangible notions of “the future”—given the rapid progression of global technological and environmental change—Lucas prompted each artist to create a virtual work imagining the future of Land Art and land use. By using digital tools to envision physically improbable scenarios, the artists have produced haunting new realities that provoke broader conversations about culture, social issues, and the environment.
In Dance with flARmingos, the flamingo acts as ambassador to the project. Both the consummate showman and the embattled victim of environmental neglect, it is the act of scanning an image of this paradoxical bird using one’s smartphone that launches the augmented reality exhibition. The American flamingo has been vanishing in Florida for the past one hundred years, after being hunted to near extinction for its eggs, plumes, and meat, yet images of this charismatic colorful bird continue to flourish in the tourism and fashion industries. While it is recently reported that a small flock has returned to the protected wetlands of the Everglades and flamingo populations worldwide are on the rise, a positive outcome of global conservationist efforts, human activity in general has made all flamingo species more vulnerable than ever before.
Visitors can access the virtual sculptures via Layar, a free Augmented Reality camera app that can be downloaded onto any smartphone. Once the app is downloaded, the map included here can be used to locate the works.
Participating artists:
Morehshin Allahyari
Peter Baldes
Shamus Clisset
Ben Coonley
Eteam
Lily & Honglei Art Studio
Kristin Lucas Rosa Menkman
Brenna Murphy
Eva Papamargariti
Will Pappenheimer
Tabita Rezaire
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Rick Silva
Mark Skwarek
Jack Stenner
Thomas Storey
V5MT
Miyö Van Stenis
Giselle Zatonyl
Augmented Reality Sculpture Tour:
June 26th, 2-2:40pm
Kristin Lucas received an MFA from Stanford University (2006) and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (1994). Her work nationally and internationally at museums, contemporary art centers, and galleries, including: DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (2016), Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (2015, 2014, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2001), XPO Gallery, Paris, France (2015, 2014), House of Electronic Arts, Plug[in], Basel, Switzerland (2015, 2010, 2003), Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (2011), New Museum, New York, NY (2010), And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX (2008), ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2005), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK (2003), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2001), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (2000), O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria (2000), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1997) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1997), and at festivals, including: Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX (2012), dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012), and Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany (2004, 2003). She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including: Andrea Frank Foundation Grant, Edith Russ Site for Media Art Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, and a Rhizome Commission, among others. Her videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and her expanded body of work is represented by Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY.
- An Itinerary with Notes
- Exhibition Views
- Hidden
- Watershed
- A Distant Memory Being Recalled (Queens Teens Respond)
- Overhead: A Response to Kerry Downey’s Fishing with Angela
- Sweat, Leaks, Holes: Crossing the Threshold
- PULSE: On Jonah Groeneboer’s The Potential in Waves Colliding
- Interview: Melanie McLain and Alina Tenser
- Personal Space
- Data, the Social Being, and the Social Network
- Responses from Mechanical Turk
- MAPS, DNA, AND SPAM
- Queens Internacional 2016
- Uneven Development: On Beirut and Plein Air
- A Crisis of Context
- Return to Sender
- Interview: Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- Mining Through History: The Contemporary Practices of Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- A Conversation with Shadi Harouni's The Lightest of Stones
- Directions to a Gravel Quarry
- Walk This Way
- Interview: Brian Caverly and Barb Smith
- "I drew the one that has the teeth marks..."
- BEAT IT! (Queens Teens respond)
- Moments
- Lawn Furniture
- In Between Difference, Repetition, and Original Use
- Interview: Dave Hardy and Max Warsh
- Again—and again: on the recent work of Alan Ruiz
- City of Tomorrow
- Noticing This Space
- NO PLACE FOR A MAP
- The History of the World Was with Me That Night
- What You Don't See (Queens Teens Respond)
- Interview: Allison Davis and Sam Vernon
- When You’re Smiling…The Many Faces Behind the Mask
- Interview: Jesus Benavente and Carl Marin
- The Eternal Insult
- Janking Off
- Queens Theatricality