Eden Waters AR (Augmented Reality)

 

Videos, Photographs, and Sounds are hidden within Eden Waters

To view the Augmented Reality in the image above

1. download the Aurasma app for your smart phone or tablet
   Google Play
   itunes



2. Scan the QR code
   
   
3. Make Eden Waters image  full screen
    
4. Point to Eden Waters image on your screen!

go to http://www.aurasma.com for link to download for your phone or tablet 

This image is extracted from the video in progress:
http://planktonportraiture.blogspot.com/2013/09/eden-waters-hudson-valley-fresh-water.html

an example of what you will see with Aurasma


And more examples below

Eden Waters: Hudson Valley Fresh Water

https://vimeo.com/66880980

Eden Waters

Imagine life as a microscopic aquatic creature in the season of beginnings. Eden Waters is digitally composited from manipulated video captures of life in fresh water taken from a muddy stream in the Hudson Valley, in June, 2013, just as the ground and waters began to warm. The layers of teaming life represent represent the emergence of life in the early spring of our Earth. They also simulate the imagined experience of swimming through the water, as well as the artist’s own experience of focusing through the microscope, going from mud to discovering amazing lifeforms, to later viewing only bacteria as the freshwater plankton disappeared in the warmth of the laboratory. The work was begun during the "Art Kibbutz" artist residency.  The actual video micro-captures were done in the lab with small drops of water from the source. All imagery was found, digitized, and modified by Cynthia Beth Rubin.

 The water samples used in this video are from Camp Eden Village in Putnam Valley, New York. The work was begun during the "Art Kibbutz" artist residency. Music by Bob Gluck.  Vocals by Zoe Zak.

Medieval Plankton and the Four Humors

Medieval Plankton and the Four Humors

Thanks to the Oxford Gallery of Rochester NY for inspiring this image.  Each year the gallery director, James Hall, comes up with a challenge for the gallery artists.  This year he challenged us to work with the theme of the Four Humors.

Because the idea of the Four Humors stems from early medicine, I turned to a Medieval Hebrew Manuscript as a source of inspiration, mixing the motifs of the era with my own captures of plankton. Of particular interest was the way in the plankton became to take on the character of the medieval decorative faces - the same lifelike haunting spirituality of the Middle Ages.

Bible by JOSHUA BAR ABRAHAM IBN GAON, Spain, 1310
Calendar of festivals  Bibliothèque Nationale ms Hebr. 21 Folio 4v

Collecting Ceratium lineatum

 

Grouping the Plankton Portraits as long thin slices of moving life in an imagined water world. 

and an imagined installation