A Borderline Project
by Patricia Espinosa and John Craig Freeman
La Lotería Aumentada is an augmented reality public art project inspired by La Loteria Mexicana. La Loteria is a game similar to Bingo. Instead of numbers, it uses a deck of cards illustrated with figures that represent everyday objects, plants, animals, mythical creatures and other characters.
Brought together in September of 2011, during Borderline Projects’ La Lotería exhibition, collaborators Patricia Espinosa and John Craig Freeman have set out to create an augmented reality public art experience using all original paintings created by Patricia.
The public can simply download and launch the project and aim their device’s cameras at the surrounding area. The application uses geolocation software to superimpose the cards at precise GPS coordinates, enabling people to see the cards integrated into the physical location as if they existed in the real world.
Instructions:
- Download any free code reader app to your iPhone or Android now.
- Press the scan button and aim at this code or enter http://m.layar.com/open/laloteriaaumentada in your phone’s web browser.
- If you don’t have the free Layar Augmented Reality Browser installed, you will be prompted to do so.
- Once Layar is installed, reading the code will launch the La Lotería Aumentada project in Layar.
- Stand at the locations indicated on the map above.
- Aim the device’s camera towards the small dots in the mini-map in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
