((PKG)) NATIVE AMERICAN ART IN AUGMENTED
REALITY FORMAT
((TRT: 04:28))
((Topic Banner: Native Art Augmented))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((NATS))
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
I grew up in Los Angeles. Part of my cultural ancestry is
Tongva, which are the original people of Los Angeles. And a
lot of my work revolves around looking at land, land access.
Our tribe is not federally recognized, which means we don't
have sovereign land base. So, I always have this feeling that
I’m, you know, moving through Los Angeles, moving through
this territory that's my ancestral homelands, but there’s all
these private property signs and people call me a
trespassing or call me a trespasser. And so, it’s this odd
feeling of, you know, this deep connection and then kind of
also being told that I don't belong here.
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
So, I make these kind of constellation cosmic spaces as a
way to kind of point people into interacting with something
that they can recognize. A lot of my work references, objects
or culture that has been erased from the history books, and
so, I have to give a lot of history lessons and tell these
stories in a way that people are not familiar with.
((Banner:
"Portal for Tovaangar" by Mercedes Dorame is one of five
augmented reality works set up by the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA) in collaboration with Snapchat.))
((NATS))
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
Translating my physical work and my installations into this
digital kind of augmented reality space, really points this
Indigenous presence, this Tongva presence, to the future for
me.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
If I create an augmented reality artwork, that is, you're
looking at it through your phone and it's activated in that
physical space, that's a spatial artwork. So, what we have at
LACMA is a spatial artwork.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
As my hand moves around this environment, I am holding
down the trigger and the red strings growing out of the
controller. So, what I am doing here now is like I can grab
the artwork with my controllers and I can scale it up and look
at it very closely. And what I've done, I've pulled in a photo of
Mercedes' artwork, which I am using as a reference at the
bottom of this sculpture, and I am then sculpting on top of it
everything else, the ropes and the rocks, and then I
recreated it in a 3D program.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
This is Snapchat's Lens Studio, what we are looking at the
moment. So, what you can see here is the same painted
artwork. It's now being placed on the floor in this 3D
environment. So, I'll send it to my device.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
So, now we have the artwork. It's in my living room. I don't
have a lot of space in my living room, so I'll shrink it down a
bit. And you can see the artwork is now on the floor and then
I can go in close and I can look at the details.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
We have these big, long ropes stretching out everywhere in
every which direction and immediately when I gave it to my
friend's daughter, who is like five-years old, she started
crawling under the ropes and climbing over the ropes and
like literally on her back on the ground, sliding around the
ground. And it was really motivating her to explore the art
from all those different vantage points.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
We can do that with physical art, but it was interesting to see
that we also can do that with these virtual artworks, that
something that's not tangible, has that power. Like you know
that you can walk through it, but still she was kind of going
underneath it.
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
The stones kind of have their own life. The stones, which
was really fun, which I can't do when I’m making an
installation like that, are like up in the air and they kind of
create their own little constellation around the piece.
Utilizing these new technologies and these things that,
maybe, I haven't engaged with in the past, is a way for me to
insert and proclaim that, you know, Tongva people belong in
the future visions of place, the future visions of art and the
future visions of technology.
((NATS))
REALITY FORMAT
((TRT: 04:28))
((Topic Banner: Native Art Augmented))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((NATS))
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
I grew up in Los Angeles. Part of my cultural ancestry is
Tongva, which are the original people of Los Angeles. And a
lot of my work revolves around looking at land, land access.
Our tribe is not federally recognized, which means we don't
have sovereign land base. So, I always have this feeling that
I’m, you know, moving through Los Angeles, moving through
this territory that's my ancestral homelands, but there’s all
these private property signs and people call me a
trespassing or call me a trespasser. And so, it’s this odd
feeling of, you know, this deep connection and then kind of
also being told that I don't belong here.
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
So, I make these kind of constellation cosmic spaces as a
way to kind of point people into interacting with something
that they can recognize. A lot of my work references, objects
or culture that has been erased from the history books, and
so, I have to give a lot of history lessons and tell these
stories in a way that people are not familiar with.
((Banner:
"Portal for Tovaangar" by Mercedes Dorame is one of five
augmented reality works set up by the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA) in collaboration with Snapchat.))
((NATS))
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
Translating my physical work and my installations into this
digital kind of augmented reality space, really points this
Indigenous presence, this Tongva presence, to the future for
me.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
If I create an augmented reality artwork, that is, you're
looking at it through your phone and it's activated in that
physical space, that's a spatial artwork. So, what we have at
LACMA is a spatial artwork.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
As my hand moves around this environment, I am holding
down the trigger and the red strings growing out of the
controller. So, what I am doing here now is like I can grab
the artwork with my controllers and I can scale it up and look
at it very closely. And what I've done, I've pulled in a photo of
Mercedes' artwork, which I am using as a reference at the
bottom of this sculpture, and I am then sculpting on top of it
everything else, the ropes and the rocks, and then I
recreated it in a 3D program.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
This is Snapchat's Lens Studio, what we are looking at the
moment. So, what you can see here is the same painted
artwork. It's now being placed on the floor in this 3D
environment. So, I'll send it to my device.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
So, now we have the artwork. It's in my living room. I don't
have a lot of space in my living room, so I'll shrink it down a
bit. And you can see the artwork is now on the floor and then
I can go in close and I can look at the details.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
We have these big, long ropes stretching out everywhere in
every which direction and immediately when I gave it to my
friend's daughter, who is like five-years old, she started
crawling under the ropes and climbing over the ropes and
like literally on her back on the ground, sliding around the
ground. And it was really motivating her to explore the art
from all those different vantage points.
((Stuart "Sutu" Campbell, Extended Reality Artist))
We can do that with physical art, but it was interesting to see
that we also can do that with these virtual artworks, that
something that's not tangible, has that power. Like you know
that you can walk through it, but still she was kind of going
underneath it.
((Mercedes Dorame, Native American Artist))
The stones kind of have their own life. The stones, which
was really fun, which I can't do when I’m making an
installation like that, are like up in the air and they kind of
create their own little constellation around the piece.
Utilizing these new technologies and these things that,
maybe, I haven't engaged with in the past, is a way for me to
insert and proclaim that, you know, Tongva people belong in
the future visions of place, the future visions of art and the
future visions of technology.
((NATS))
