Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture, presented as part of BCNM's Oakland New Media program, co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies
with Damien McDuffie
Creative Technologist, Digital Archivist, Augmented Reality Artist, Founder of Black Terminus AR, and Black Public Media Visiting Artist Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this interactive lecture, Damien McDuffie, founder of Black Terminus AR, will guide participants through the innovative world of augmented reality (AR) in the arts. Titled "Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality," this session offers a dynamic introduction to how AR technology is transforming the way we experience and create art. Designed for a college-aged audience, the workshop will explore the intersection of art and technology, highlighting the creative possibilities unlocked by AR.
Participants will gain hands-on experience using Black Terminus AR, a no-code, drag-and-drop AR editor, to create immersive and interactive art installations. Through a blend of storytelling, historical integration, and digital curation, Damien will demonstrate how AR can amplify diverse voices, promote cultural awareness, and bring new dimensions to traditional art forms. Attendees will leave with a foundational understanding of AR's role in the future of art and the skills to start experimenting with this exciting technology in their own creative projects.
About Damien McDuffie
Damien is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist and developer. He is the founder of Black Terminus AR, an augmented reality camera company that lets artists and museums create, sell, or commission AR artworks without learning a ton of code or buying a bunch of expensive gadgets. All they need is the Black Terminus AR mobile camera app that helps bring artwork to life. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists.
By way of Into the Archives, his on-going gallery exhibition series, he uses photo collage and augmented reality to extend still photos from his personal family archive and artwork into a new dimension. Each archival/art piece is taken from the family archival collections of a range of disparate family members and showcased as open-air museums of historic Black neighborhoods. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists to use personal archives and still photography as a way into creative tech.
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