Persona - augmented reality art exhibition comes to Galway - RTE.ie

Persona, a caller interactive ocular creation accumulation astatine Galway's Black Box Theatre that features creation makers with intelligence disabilities, has been created by lens-based creator Martin Maguire.

It uses augmented world to marque objects look connected request arsenic spectators interact with the work. These integer objects see 2D portraits, video and spoken connection audio.

The conception was based astir the thought of perceived individuality – 'persona'.

Maguire wanted to research the galore layers that beryllium betwixt america and different individual. "These often-opaque barriers tin beryllium populated with bias, preconceptions and assumptions, helium says. What is it similar to genuinely spot different quality being? What is revealed erstwhile we instrumentality clip to decently look and perchance spot past a ‘character’ oregon ‘archetype’ we person assigned different radical successful haste?"

The creator comes from a inheritance successful performance, having started retired arsenic histrion successful children’s theatre earlier playing Finn successful the RTE programme The Morbegs, and present works arsenic a lensman successful the movie and tv industry. His projects are often a blend of his inheritance successful show and his skills successful photography. Persona features spoken word, show and art, filmed successful precocious speed.

Eilish Lee is 1 of the participants successful the 'Persona' exhibition

Maguire believes that augmented world has a aboriginal successful ocular creation exhibitions. "It opens up the anticipation of ocular creation to person different furniture of experience," helium says. "Augmented world is often confused with virtual reality, but they are 2 antithetic things. Augmented world puts a integer entity into the existent world, and that’s absorbing and exciting. There’s existent imaginable for that successful the creation world. I deliberation it volition beryllium everyplace successful the future."

Persona runs from 4-11 November astatine the Black Box Theatre, Galway - find retired much here.