A Series of AR Objects for Public Space as an Alternative Form of Memory

The easiest way to define digital public art is to label it as public art created using new digital media. However, work on such a topic begins with the discovery of the uncertainties of the position of established concepts in connection with the invasion of digital into our daily life — from the endlessly loosened framework of art and the definition of publicity as such, up to the blurring boundaries between the real and the virtual. The visual study "Digital Public Art: the specifics of augmented Reality as a medium" is devoted to the use of digital media in contemporary public art. The focus of the research is augmented reality, which exists at the junction of virtual and physical public spaces, and therefore acts as a radical example of how digital technologies transform the experience of interacting with art in public space. The research aims to identify the features of augmented reality as a medium, while simultaneously raising the question of its critical (political) potential and the mechanics of interaction with the viewer, which allow us to consider it in the context of public art. The chronological framework of the study covers the period from 2010 - the appearance of the first projects identified as AR public art — to the present.