Open Space

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Open Space

30 Sep 2021 - 29 Mar 2023

Open Space is an Augmented Reality initiative comprised of artist commissions and a mentoring programme for young artists (aged 18-24).

Curated in collaboration with Zaiba Jabbar, Open Space presents three site specific AR commissions by Keiken, Hyphen-Labs and Josèfa Ntjam to be experienced in the Soho Photography Quarter, a new public art space in the immediate surroundings of The Photographers’ Gallery.

Zaiba Jabbar, Keiken, Hyphen-Labs and Josèfa Ntjam are also involved in mentoring 20 UK-based 18-24 year olds. The free online mentorship programme consists of 4 workshops introducing the participants to AR tools and techniques, as well as critical thought around AR production, followed by a series of one-to-one sessions to develop 6 new AR projects.

Online A computer desktop featuring warped photographs of heads, glitches, and many shortcut icons

08 Feb 2023 - 01 Mar 2023

Beautified-AI - Leda Sadotti

A community for complex and layered AI-generated internet profiles . The fifth Open Space online Augmented Reality commission.

Exhibition A digital render of a scene with green and purple gradient, a grid surrounded by clouds, and a mountain on top with a robotic eye looking out.

Hyphen-Labs x Ash Baccus-Clark

22 Dec 2022 - 04 May 2023

Encrypted: [AR]boreal Servers

Encrypted: Arboreal Servers invites you to look through Dycrillic’s eye, a portal into the Synaptic Lineage, where memories feed the arboreal servers, depositing histories into the vast network of the

Online A blue digital figure in a darker blue cloak looks upwards in prayer, in an industrial indoor environment that includes a human-like figure in a floating vertically in a tube

26 Oct 2022 - 26 Nov 2022

Afrogenesis by Sarah Ejionye

An immersive digital environment stages a reimagining of three different science fiction stories. The third Open Space online Augmented Reality commission.

Online A virtual greenhouse sits in a real life green sapce

01 Aug 2022 - 01 Sep 2022

Garden of Elowan by Georgia Janes

An immersive AR greenhouse created by artist Georgia Janes houses a collection of speculative plant species. The second Open Space online Augmented Reality commission.

Online A 3D scan of a crouching young woman in a black dress hovers above a hand reaching out through a tangle of 3D tubes

04 Jul 2022 - 01 Aug 2022

XRiS-00222 by Nella Piatek

Between face filters, coloured lenses and floating aliens lies a portal into a digital gravestone of a cyberwitch. The first Open Space online Augmented Reality commission.

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Meet the Artists

Meet the artists and curators involved in Open Space - a new Augmented Reality initiative comprised of commissions and a mentoring programme for young artists

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England