Explore Art, Music, and Science with an AR Walk in the Park
Haunted Planet will host an Augmented Reality workshop in the Botanic Gardens of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in association with the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS).
This workshop will showcase Haunted Planet’s “Synaesthesia Gallery 2 AR” experience, featuring 12 episodes of music art soundscapes inspired by synesthesia’s cross-modal perception on a walk in the park. In a treasure hunt for music and art, the Haunted Planet team invites you to learn about the creativity of cross-modal perception and synesthesia. You'll follow the radar on your smartphone to find AR music art encounters and collect them into your casebook. Make sure to have your smartphone charged!
Please note this interactive experience will start from the Friend Gate, located near Martin Luther King Drive.
You will be provided the instructions for how to play. The 60 Eventbrite arrivals will be given a promo code to download the app for free (normally priced at $6.99).
This event is presented in collaboration with the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS). Learn more about the IASAS and other related events here.
The workshop will also feature a scientific talk by creative director and CEO Haunted Planet Studios Prof. Mads Haahr, Dr. Svetlana Rudenko, and Carolyn CC Hart, an artist, neurodiversity advocate, and secretary of IASAS.
Our motivation
Provoked by numerous art-less walks during the pandemic, Haunted Planet Studios launched a series of location-based Augmented Reality experiences under the umbrella “OpenAirGallery AR”.
This services uses a smartphone-based locative media platform to display digital galleries and music albums in an interactive format.
About the App
Following the launch of “Synaesthesia Gallery AR: Journey through the Senses” 2021 at Trinity College Dublin for Brain Awareness Week (with funding award by Dana Foundation and Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), "Synaesthesia Gallery 2 AR" app features creative synaesthesia experiences crafted in art and music: painted, composed or experienced. Synaesthesia is a wiring of the brain that is characterised by cross-modal perceptions.
In addition to perceiving stimulus in one sensory modality, e. g. sound/ music, synesthetes may perceive an additional quality to the experience in a secondary modality – a colour, or smell, or feeling. Many synesthetes use their cross- sensory experiences as creative inspirations.
Our previous research results showed a high level of interest in the genre of AR gallery games and the promising social benefits of cooperative cultural play, educational, and great aesthetic experience for individuals interested in art and music.
The app features works of scientists and artists who work with synaesthesia research, music, or art, or both: Michael Havercamp, Karin Olesen, Timothy Layden, Svetlana Rudenko, Christine Söffing, Dolores Montijano, Carol Steen, CC Hart, Carrie Firman, Ninghui Xiong, Greta Berman, Geri Hahn, M. K. Ciurlionis, Richard Roche, and Mads Haahr.
