Street Art Comes to Life with Augmented Reality

Augmented reality artist BC "Heavy" Biermann has reinvented street art in urban space with augmented reality applications for mobile phones, with interactive animations.

Street art is the basic element that augmented reality artist BC "Heavy" Biermann, in collaboration with creative companies Transmedia, EAN Mering and Re+Public, used to dynamically reinvent urban public space using augmented reality mobile apps with interactive animations.

The artist's goal is to draw attention to the commercial deployment that exists in the urban space and try to get citizens to participate with augmented reality applications to give a new meaning to the street art works that are in the streets (A wall on the wall with graffiti) and the advertising messages that invade them, but with a spectacular and creative result that recreates a virtual history of the site in a more open and democratic way.

To date, has developed and produced augmented reality applications in urban spaces in New York, Los Angeles, Miami & Norway.

While for now these projects are in private beta, everything indicates that the initiative will continue and that these applications will be available for iOS and Android throughout this year. To try them out, the user has to register on the Re+Public website and wait for the beta to be sent.

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