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The Virtual Public Art Project is an Augmented Reality platform for the public display of digital works of art. VPAP is the first mobile AR outdoor art experience ever, and maximizes public reception of AR art through compatibility with both iPhone 3GS and Android phones! Unlike current AR smart phone utilities that enable users to view a location with an additional layer of information about that location – i.e. information about a restaurant, VPAP creates site-specific sculptures at a location that invite viewers in for close observation from all sides and from multiple perspectives. Augmented Reality and Public Art Augmented reality is a view of the physical real-world environment merged with virtual computer-generated imagery in real-time. VPAP merges the real-world physical environment of public spaces around the world with site-specific virtual sculptures that can only be viewed in-the-round using the iPhone 3GS and Android phones when one is at the sculpture's real-world location. http://virtualpublicartproject.com/Virtual_Public_Art_Project/Virtual_Public_Art_Project.html
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The Virtual Public Art Project

Started March 2010

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Viewing of Virtual Crystals


1. Download Junaio from the App Store

2. Click on subscribed channels and search for "Entropic"

3. Open “Entropic Growth 100” channel and point your phone to one of the three tags on the sculpture


Entropic Growth 100

Rigid foam, Poly Urethane, Iron Paint, Rust, Virtual 3D Model

Thanks to:

Christian Meinhardt

Björn Günzel


Made possible with the help of

I’m exploring the spaces where the distinction between natural and industrial blurs. We have started to mask our intrusion into the natural world by manufacturing machine-made, fake nature: poured concrete made to look like rock walls, cell phone tower trees, and plastic everything for your front yard. I want to address what happens when these objects become useless and discarded. What changes when our surroundings that used to grow, rot, and die don’t do so anymore and instead start to rust, need a new coat of paint, or don’t change at all. Does this change our understanding of time?


An added element to the sculpture are three black and white tags. The tags act as a barcode of sorts, allowing the app “Junaio” to read and load a virtual 3D model on top of them. The model is a cluster of blue crystals similar to that of copper sulfate crystals.