Presentation
A New Media Techspressionist Architectures Experiment: An AR Mediated Speculative Expression in an Audio/Visual 21st century - LA World
DescriptionAs part of ACM SIGGRAPH DAC’s host city community outreach initiative, this project expands the New Media Architectures series through a collaborative cultural partnership within the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). Developed for SIGGRAPH LA 2026, the project positions Los Angeles itself as an experimental civic platform for artistic research, public engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, technology, and urban culture.
This co-curated Augmented Reality experimental exhibition brings together architects, artists, composers, computer scientists, media artists, musicians, designers, and technologists to collaboratively develop responsive site-specific works. By engaging the city's cultural histories and communities, the project transforms LA into a living laboratory.
The exhibition investigates how AI, autonomous systems, algorithmic governance, surveillance infrastructures, and machinic economies are reshaping contemporary urban life locally and globally. Through geospatial interventions and hybrid physical-digital experiences, the project proposes new curatorial and research models that rethink public and private space as an augmented networked fabric for artistic, and performative inquiry.
Framed through the concept of “Techspressionism,” the project explores emerging expressive forms shaped by cinematic culture, computational media, immersive environments, and layered digital realities. Central to this initiative is a dialogue between artists, researchers, and local arts communities exploring how creative practice can critically engage and reimagine the future of urban experience.
This DAC session invites the SIGGRAPH community to explore new collaborative models of cultural expansive production that transform Los Angeles into a distributed platform for collective imagination, experimentation, public discourse, and community-centered technological futures.
This co-curated Augmented Reality experimental exhibition brings together architects, artists, composers, computer scientists, media artists, musicians, designers, and technologists to collaboratively develop responsive site-specific works. By engaging the city's cultural histories and communities, the project transforms LA into a living laboratory.
The exhibition investigates how AI, autonomous systems, algorithmic governance, surveillance infrastructures, and machinic economies are reshaping contemporary urban life locally and globally. Through geospatial interventions and hybrid physical-digital experiences, the project proposes new curatorial and research models that rethink public and private space as an augmented networked fabric for artistic, and performative inquiry.
Framed through the concept of “Techspressionism,” the project explores emerging expressive forms shaped by cinematic culture, computational media, immersive environments, and layered digital realities. Central to this initiative is a dialogue between artists, researchers, and local arts communities exploring how creative practice can critically engage and reimagine the future of urban experience.
This DAC session invites the SIGGRAPH community to explore new collaborative models of cultural expansive production that transform Los Angeles into a distributed platform for collective imagination, experimentation, public discourse, and community-centered technological futures.
Event Type
ACM SIGGRAPH 365
TimeWednesday, 22 July 20263:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
LocationRoom 404 AB
Arts & Design
New Technologies
Animation
Art
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Audio
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Display
Education
Generative AI
Graphics Systems Architecture
Image Processing
Performance
Real-Time
Rendering
Simulation
Spatial Computing
Virtual Reality
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Full Conference
Experience
