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Fallbrook Park Meet-Up: AR Art Experience

Thursday, July 27, 2023

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location: Fallbrook Park

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Free and open to the public | No registration required
Location: Fallbrook Park, 152-182 E Tioga Ave, Corning

Drop in anytime from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fallbrook Park to learn about and engage digitally with the Burden of Conquest exhibition. Discover invisible city sculptures through the lens of your iPhone or iPad! Rockwell Teen Interns will guide you through the Augmented Reality (AR) exhibition experience and will be on hand to assist with technology and answer any questions. Devices will be available if needed.

The Burden of Conquest exhibition by artist Shasti O’Leary Soudant is on view at Fallbrook Park, Corning, NY, through October 29, 2023. The exhibition is a series of 11 AR city sculptures accessible by scanning QR codes at 11 yellow pillars with a phone or tablet. It is designed as an Art Game and can be experienced alone or in groups. Visitors are encouraged to explore the park and view these “invisible sculptures” in a digital realm.

Find and collect all 11 City Hearts! For each AR sculpture a visitor explores, there is an opportunity to find a City Heart that can be 3D printed. Learn more about Burden of Conquest >>

Interested in a guided experience of Burden of Conquest?

Join Community Based Arts Practitioner, Meghan OʼToole on a guided walking tour of the Burden of Conquest Augmented Reality (AR) exhibition in downtown Corning.

To book a Public Art Tour with Meghan O’Toole and see available times >>

 

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In Burden of Conquest: An Augmented Reality Art Game, you can explore 11 futuristic and fantastical cityscapes that are based on 11 real-life locations. Hidden in each virtual city is that city’s Heart—a small digital sculpture—that when discovered, provides you with a QR code to access a physical 3-D printed version at The Southeast Steuben County Library. All you need is an Apple device (iPhone or iPad) and a sense of adventure.

To create this artistic installation and game, artist Shasti O’Leary Soudant was inspired by Italo Calvino’s celebrated 1978 novel Invisible Cities. In the book, readers are taken on a journey through a series of fantastical towns, as narrated by Marco Polo to the notorious conqueror Kublai Khan. Soudant wondered what it would be like to create imaginative virtual cities so ephemeral, they appear as you approach them and disappear as you leave. The result is The Rockwell Museum’s very first Augmented Reality Art Game.

 

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About the Artist

Headshot of Shasti O’Leary Soudant.

Shasti O’Leary Soudant

Shasti O’Leary Soudant is a multidisciplinary artist, sculptor, designer and writer whose large‐scale, colorful public art is inspired by humanist, philosophical, political, and scientific concepts. This work is developed in collaboration with the community, designed to invite engagement and interaction, and involves hidden systems, power dynamics, human relationships, balance and hegemony.

Burden of Conquest is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. This work was incubated and supported by the Sculpture Space Artists Residency in Utica, NY. We are grateful to our local collaborators—the Southeast Steuben County Library and Megan O’Toole (Community Based Arts Practitioner)—for helping us bring this Augmented Reality Art Game to fruition.

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