"Newtown Creek (oil spill)" documentary of AR art by Tamiko Thiel

Documentary video of Tamiko Thiel's augmented reality (AR) artwork "Newtown Creek (oil spill)".

Newtown Creek is a massively contaminated Superfund site running through the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. For the AR artwork "Newtown Creek (oil spill)" Tamiko Thiel has created a 3D object from the outline of the creek, textured it with an iridescent oil spill and geolocated it at Meeker Avenue and Gardner Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one of the few places with street access to Newtown Creek. For more information on the artwork and the creek see: http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/newtown-creek.html

Many thanks to riverkeeper.org for information on Newtown Creek - please see their webpage http://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/stop-polluters/newtown/ to read of the current state of the effort to clean up the creek.

"Newtown Creek (oil spill)" premiered in April, 2011 in the show "gradually melt the sky" at the Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Newtown Creek
• superfund
• augmented reality
• art
• AR
• Tamiko Thiel
• oil spill
• gms
• devotion gallery
• riverkeeper.org