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I will be holding down the fort at our booth in the Scope pavilion Dec. 5-9 in Miami, 2012. I will be there with Mitch Miller representing Outer Spaces, an augmented reality media production house, a collaboration between Augmented Mountain and Scope. Augmented Mountain is a media company run by Phoenix Toews, Mitch Miller and me, Meredith Drum.

Desert Oyster at ISEA2012

Here is our AR mini oyster museum, Desert Oyster, in the New Mexico desert. Desert Oyster is an off-shoot of Oyster City. Created specifically for ISEA2012 Albuquerque, Desert Oyster was made by Rachel Stevens and me, Meredith, using Palimpsest, an AR tool kit developed by Phoenix Toews.

Oyster City at ISEA2012 Albuquerque, NM

The Oyster City team (Meredith Drum, Rachel Stevens, Phoenix Toews) has been invited to present an iteration of our project as an artist talk at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 21 September 2012. We will also show the version as part of ISEA’s downtown block party on Sunday, Sept. 23rd. Let me know if you will also be at ISEA.

Oyster City at i-Docs Interactive Documentary Symposium 2012

In late March 2012, Rachel Stevens presented our collaborative project Oyster City at the i-Docs Interactive Documentary Symposium in Bristol, UK at the Watershed Media Center. Thanks to Rachel for traveling with the project. Above is an image of Rachel looking at the Hudson as a virtual PCB molecule and a GE symbol float down the river.

Pyrite at the Scope Art Fair NYC March 2012

A collaboration that I am working on with Mitch Miller and Phoenix Toews, Augmented Mountain, released a new version of our Pyrite app in conjunction with the Scope Art Fair in New York City, March 7-11. You can visit our website: augmentedmountain.com. The app is a free download on the app store. Check it out! http://tinyurl.com/PyriteApp

Pyrite at the Scope Art Fair Miami 2011

Pyrite is a new augmented reality mash-up game created by my collaborative Augmented Mountain (Mitch Miller, Phoenix Toews, Meredith Drum). We released the game as a technological partnership with the Scope Art Fair, Miami 4-9, 2011. Above is a video taken of someone playing the game at Scope Miami.

OYSTER CITY at Mobility Shifts, New School in October 2011

My collaborators, Rachel Stevens and Phoenix Toews, and I will be presenting our new project Oyster City at the Mobility Shifts: International Future of Learning conference at the New School in NYC on October 12th. The workshop description is here. The project we are presenting, Oyster City, is an augmented reality walking tour of lower Manhattan focused on the history of humans and oysters in NY Harbor, including information about recent initiatives to restore water qualities by reintroducing oyster reefs to the harbor.