Future Past News
ITP Alumni Karolina Ziulkoski and Andrea Wolf will be showing a revamped version of Future Past News at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York City's curator-driven art fair during Armory Week.
Future Past News is an Augmented Reality experience that exposes disturbing parallels between present day and 1937 pre-war turmoil, hoping to raise awareness of our political choices. We developed this project last year with the elections in the horizon. We never thought it would be even more relevant today.
Opening: Tuesday February 28, 5pm - 9pm
Regular hours: March 1 - 6, 11am - 6pm
NEW LOCATION! 4 Times Square, NYC (entrance on 43rd Street)
We will be in room #25 on the 23rd floor (see attached map).
More info at: www.springbreakartshow.com
Future Past News' installation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, situates visitors in an average living room circa 1937. The TV is on and the news (an 8mm newsreel found in a flea market in Mexico City) are playing: governments in chaos, strikes, storms and flood, progress in technology and connectivity, impending wars, powerful leaders negotiating the future of countless others. Knowing what followed the turmoils of the prewar time, the old news rendered a deep feeling of despair and ominous sense of deja vu.
Future Past News invites you to look at these images of the past through an AR App that switches their content to present news. A new layer of information is added to the footage on the screen, juxtaposing the news from 1937 and our current state of affairs, showing how history repeats itself (if we allow it).
* You can also experience this project online: download the free AR app from the AppStore. Then go to futurepast.news on a computer or another device’s browser and play the video in fullscreen mode. On an iPhone or iPad, open the app and point the device’s camera to the computer screen. Looking at the news from 1937 through the app you will also see our current news on your device.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Karolina Ziulkoski is new media artist from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She uses technological applications to create immersive experiences that allow for a deeper participatory exchange between stories and audiences.
Andrea Wolf is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the relationship between personal memory and cultural practices of remembering. She creates multimedia installations that explore how technology, media and memory affect and transform each other, creating models of remembrance that are culturally shaped.