Reality Crossing

Cat Bluemke with Jonathan Carroll as SpekWork Studio

2021
Augmented reality application, risograph zine, single-channel video, digital print

Indoor installation of Reality Crossing at InterAccess, featuring an augmented reality map, vinyl applications, zines on a plinth, and a single-channel video. — Installation view, *Geofenced*, curated by Karie Liao for InterAccess, Toronto, 2021. The indoor installation featured an AR map as image trigger for the mobile application, interactive AR vinyl applications, zines, and a single-channel video.

Reality Crossing is an interactive AR simulation of railway and real estate development. The project compares the technologies of augmented reality and the railway, exploring how each enabled new resources to be extracted from the land and changed the public's perception of space and time. Learning from our past, the artists ask us to consider how we might develop present and future digital infrastructure that prioritize and empower people.

Audience members using their phones to activate the augmented reality map and play the Reality Crossing game. — Audience activating the AR map and playing the *Reality Crossing* game.

Detail of the takeaway risograph zines on a plinth, featuring a pull-out version of the augmented reality trigger map. — Detail of the takeaway zines, featuring a pull-out version of the AR trigger map audiences could bring home.