Artist and KPU instructor discusses his TechLab exhibit that uses augmented reality software to reveal hidden layers of photographs.
Date/Time: May 14 2016, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Surrey, Surrey Art GalleryCost: Free
In Paulo Majano’s latest exhibit, I Was Here, he uses augmented reality technology to transform photographs of people in park spaces and picturesque landscapes in Surrey and the surrounding area into surprising 3D scenes that invite the viewer to interact with the people and objects in them.
Exhibiting artist Paulo Majano, in conversation with exhibition curator Brian Foreman, will discuss his work with augmented reality software that portrays people south of the Fraser River in their everyday life and recreational time. This project arose out of Majano’s ten years exploring the boundaries between moving and still lens imaging.
Biography
Paulo Majano is an artist and art educator working in the Vancouver area. He has an MFA from the University of British Columbia and is an Augmented Reality Developer. Born in El Salvador and having grown up in places as varied as Mexico City, New York, Texas, and Montreal, he is drawn to investigate how the individual’s subjective, personal, and local experience finds expression within the shared conventions and structures of the urban environment.
For the past decade, he has produced exhibitions and projects merging a figurative approach, based on his background as a painter, with technology-based forms of presentation and interaction. He has received awards for a wide range of media including the E. Greenshield Award for Figurative Art and Canada Council Production Grants for Photography and Media Art. In 2012, his drawing and augmented reality work, “The Living Room - here & (t)here,” which allowed viewers to virtually stand inside the drawing of his living room using augmented reality, was part of the exhibition Drawing: Expanded Medium at Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, BC.
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