[Speaking for Someone Else]- The digital environment is contentious. People are aware of manipulation and surveillance either by governments to restrict access to information or by markets that sell us services and products. This has become obvious affecting the projects that I work on, for example, in China, where many people move from one VPN to another to get past government censorship, to the US, where social media is adopted by branding applied in everything from education to products, services, politics, and to other kinds of complex interactions between cultures and people.
In the space, the AR shows a turning globe, oversized books and redacted documents interspersed with false social media posts reported as facts by news media.
A monitor in the space shows the AR and projections together. Adjacent to this are two to three iPads for viewers to use. A text introducing the ideas and background of the installation also includes a QR code for people to access the AR on their phones. Secondly, the feed shown on the monitors can be shown via the Internet. Looped projected animations flank the AR.