A Brightening Air Festival Arts Experience | AR Experience
The Corner of Scotsman's Bay
June 11th Site LaunchClick the AR Link to Enjoy Our First Experience.
From June 12th to June 20th a new Visual experience and Story will be posted daily.
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The former Dun Laoghaire baths, a ruined and bygone space creates a constellation of associations. Traces of the degraded space guard the memories of successive generations. Through digital interventions with images, visual stories, and photography viewers experience a sense of an environment that no longer exists.
New content and stories will be posted daily for the duration of the Brigtening Air Festival, sponsored by the Arts Council, from June 11th to June 20th. This will include AR experiences using original art and illustrations by collaborators, John Short and Jake Dwyer.
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Stories from Local People
We welcomes stories from anyone with memories of the baths and will weave them into the project as it expands, releasing new stories daily forfrom June 14th to June 2oth.
"As kids we were in the Otters club. We would get lessons every week, no matter what the weather was. The sea and seaweed would be crashing over the wall. We would hurry home and have toast and hot chocolate. Great memories."
- Helen Doyle
Photo: Courtesy Valerie Busher- Busher Family,1960s.
Archive
Archives are traces to which we respond. This collection of traces, as an act of remembering, involves retrieving — old postcards and ephemera, and displaying — as a playful interactive experience.
The postcards collected, about the baths and the local area, are both serendipitous and incomplete. These are "found objects" and are not intended to present a complete history.
The ways in which we experience the past at different points in our lives, shapes our memories and our imagination. Layering the past on the present is at the core of my fascination about the baths and this collection invites reflection on the nature of memory through the creative exchange.
About This Project
An interactive, online experience inviting you to contemplate a layering and compression of time, space and place as you explore an augmented reality interpretation of the former Dun Laoghaire baths.
Through mixed media and photography, stories and memories from local people who grew up swimming in the baths, and an engaging interface, we invite you to float backward and forward in time in this exciting augmented reality project.
Visitors to the site of the old Dun Laoghaire Baths, using their phones, will experience layers of mixed-reality animated illustrations by John Short and Jake Dwyer, woven into memories and stories submitted by local people who enjoyed the baths for generations.
