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CITIZEN ART
CITIZEN SCIENCE is defined as research conducted with non-professional participants. The European Citizen Science Association supports research processes "across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts".
However, CITIZEN ART is not a widely used term. In developing AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) artifacts, we found that they offer a broad opportunity for all mobile phone users to create attractive, atmospheric, surprising, intriguing, and/or thought-provoking digital works that can be materialized as photos, videos, and prints. Some of these works may be considered works of art (by whatever definition).
In CITIZEN SCIENCE, most of the tasks performed by nonprofessionals are done in the early phases of a research project (mostly by collecting data); these data are evaluated, transformed, tested, and the results may be published by professional researchers.
In contrast, in the CITIZEN ART described above, the nonprofessional artist creates the final product; this leads to a greater identification with the process and the product. This brings to mind the well-known quote "Every Man is an Artist": A phenomenon that Joseph Beuys anticipated some 50 years ago (and Novalis in a similar formulation as early as 1798).
With Citizen Art
"Every Man is an Artist"
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Because of their visual appeal, many moving elements in AR videos are objects called balls, spheres, or globes.
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The narrator of Martin Walser's 2004 novel "Der Augenblick der Liebe" describes his son-in-law as a spherist, an artist who creates his works exclusively from spheres. For him, the sphere is the only perfect object.
With reference to AR, Sarah Montani and her co-creators have characterized this approach as SFERISM and the resulting artworks as SFERISTIC ART.
Some examples of AR-based SFERISTIC ART can be found here.
The most important sphere is our globe, which is changing at an incredible speed. In oil paintings, Gerhard Knolmayer created a futuristic view of the globe with arid, red-tinted landscapes reminiscent of desertification and catastrophic living conditions.
Based on these paintings, a multinational, three-generation team, consisting of Gerhard Knolmayer, Sarah Montani, APTIQ and Jamie F.G., developed a digital 3D element and named it CLIMATE SPHERE.
The development process of this sphere is described on Sarah's page.
This CLIMATE SPHERE can be used by anyone with access to a mobile phone to create thought-provoking works that visualize effects of climate change in a surprising new way.
We show that it is very easy to generate and use the CLIMATE SPHERE.
With the resulting photos, videos, or prints, CITIZEN ARTISTS can start a discussion with children, friends, colleagues, and elders about climate issues and potential actions to reduce global warming and its effects.
The real component on such works can be, for example, everyday situations or augmented physical works of art. Especially if you depict modern art, please pay attention to copyright regulations.
We call on all people who care about the climate to join this peaceful, non-party climate movement: it brings joy, surprise, conversation, and helps to engage ourselves and others with the impact of our behavior on the climate:
Get involved in
CITIZEN ART FOR FUTURE
and send your AR objects to
We will be happy to post a selection of the artworks here, along with the names of the CITIZEN ARTISTS.