Newtown Creek (oil spill)

Source: Tamiko Thiel

Tamiko Thiel

Newtown Creek (oil spill) , 2011 – ongoing

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Tamiko Thiel, 2011

http://tamikothiel.com/AR/newtown-creek.html

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Last updated: 2014-12-14

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Newtown Creek (oil spill)

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Newton Creek

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Description

Newtown Creek is a massively contaminated Superfund site running through the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. For the AR artwork "Newtown Creek (oil spill)" Tamiko Thiel has created a 3D object from the outline of the creek, textured it with an iridescent oil spill and geolocated it at Meeker Avenue and Gardner Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one of the few places with street access to Newtown Creek.

Keywords

aesthetics
- contextual
genres
- installations
  - augmented reality (AR)
  - virtual reality (VR)
subjects
- Art and Science
  - documentation
  - space
- Arts and Visual Culture
  - representation
- History and Memory
  - historical sites
- Nature and Environment
  - earth
  - environment
  - Nature
- Power and Politics
  - politics
- Society and Culture
  - public spaces
technology
- hardware
  - mobile devices
- interfaces

Technology & Material

Exhibitions & Events

gradually melt the sky

2011

Bibliography

Thiel, Tamiko. »Interview, Statement, Artwork.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 19, no. 2 (2013): 210-219.
Thiel, Tamiko. »Cyber-Animism and Augmented Dreams.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac (April 2011).

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