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Illustrated Menagerie AR Scavenger Hunt/ We Shine Portsmouth 2022

Final preparations are underway for the 3 day festival of art and light, 17th - 19th November 2022 

We'll be at 3 locations with 35 illustrations augmented with animation, moving images and sound. One of many installations making up the festival, see the programme and artists at We Shine

Find us at;

Victoria Park (Near Portsmouth and Southsea train station)

St. Mary's Church, Fratton

Mountbatten Centre, Alexandra Park, Hilsea

From 5pm each day

Images shown here by Lily Milan and Jenna Beames

Research and Innovation Festival

12 augmented reality posters from the Illustrated Menagerie Scavenger Hunt were hidden amongst the stands and crowds of the RIS Festival in November.  These 12 were examples from university colleagues, students and alumni. 

Matter of the Manor - Belinda Mitchell
Explores alternative ways to engage with the re-inhabitation of historic places. Wymering Manor, a 16th Century house in Cosham, Portsmouth, UK, is used as a case study to examine the ways in which subjective experiences can be represented in the future of city making. The house is currently in a state of ruination, the richness of its surfaces, the smell of damp, the crumbling timber and dust made by larvae beetle slowly eating away at its core all create an overwhelming sense of affect. New digital technologies are used to rethink the tangible and intangible effects of the house and create magical transitions between the body, imagination and place. In collaboration with Nicola Hay for the Illustrated Menagerie.

See more about this and the other artworks

Prototype test - Research and Innovation Festival Set Up

 To test out the scavenger hunt we are taking part in the research and Innovation Festival, this gives us the chance to set up and test part of the full hunt.

We Shine Festival 2022

We are looking forward to We Shine Festival 2022, and thrilled to be creating an Augmented Reality Illustrated Animal trail. We will be showcasing our students' work, university staff work and work from a range of artists, designers and illustrators. 

Animal illustrations will be found around Portsmouth which, when viewed through a smartphone, will come to life with a digitally augmented layer.

See We Shine Festival for more info.

We Shine 17 - 19 November 2022

Crow's Fall

Some experimental animation work exploring the app Artivive with one of my animations inspired by the poem Crow's Fall by Ted Hughes. The app 'augments' imagery viewed through a screen superimposing it with whatever media you post to it, a really exciting way to combine static imagery and animation and to bring (as Artivive say) art to life.