2022 - Vancouver - Voxel Bridge by Jessica Angel Under the Cambie Street Bridge
Voxel Bridge is a temporary installation until 2023 on the underside of the south end of Cambie Street Bridge over Vancouver’s False Creek.
The work is by New York based Colombian artist Jessica Angel.
The installation is a vinyl overlay directly on the architecture on the underside of the bridge deck, around the columns, and underfoot on the sidewalk.
The art work is a Vancouver Biennale public art work that uses augmented reality, NFTs and blockchain technology.
The work is a physical analogue and an online digital. As pixel refers to a point in a two-dimensional world, voxel refers to a similar unit in a 3-D world.
Voxel Bridge is about itself: it will tell the story of what it means to use new decentralized technology called blockchain to create the images seen.
To access the second, digital layer of Voxel Bridge, viewers need to download a Vancouver Biennale app on a smartphone, iPad or tablet.
The app has a scanner designed to read markers that resemble QR codes. The markers will be on the vinyl layer on the ground. Once you’re in the digital layer, you’ll be able to move your phone to see digital objects that appear to float and interact.
There are 20 NFTs in Voxel Bridge. An NFT is a unique digital file that can’t be changed or divided. It’s being called the digital version of a unique artwork.
NFT stands for non fungible token. Cryptocurrencies and physical money are called fungible because they can be exchanged. NFTs are unique digital files that can’t be exchanged for one another.
And, I have no idea of what or how and don’t want too. Old person syndrome.
2022 - Vancouver - Voxel Bridge by Jessica Angel Under the Cambie Street Bridge
Voxel Bridge is a temporary installation until 2023 on the underside of the south end of Cambie Street Bridge over Vancouver’s False Creek.
The work is by New York based Colombian artist Jessica Angel.
The installation is a vinyl overlay directly on the architecture on the underside of the bridge deck, around the columns, and underfoot on the sidewalk.
The art work is a Vancouver Biennale public art work that uses augmented reality, NFTs and blockchain technology.
The work is a physical analogue and an online digital. As pixel refers to a point in a two-dimensional world, voxel refers to a similar unit in a 3-D world.
Voxel Bridge is about itself: it will tell the story of what it means to use new decentralized technology called blockchain to create the images seen.
To access the second, digital layer of Voxel Bridge, viewers need to download a Vancouver Biennale app on a smartphone, iPad or tablet.
The app has a scanner designed to read markers that resemble QR codes. The markers will be on the vinyl layer on the ground. Once you’re in the digital layer, you’ll be able to move your phone to see digital objects that appear to float and interact.
There are 20 NFTs in Voxel Bridge. An NFT is a unique digital file that can’t be changed or divided. It’s being called the digital version of a unique artwork.
NFT stands for non fungible token. Cryptocurrencies and physical money are called fungible because they can be exchanged. NFTs are unique digital files that can’t be exchanged for one another.
And, I have no idea of what or how and don’t want too. Old person syndrome.