Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez

Tamiko Thiel, 2010. Bushwick AR Intervention
Source: Tamiko Thiel, 2010. Bushwick AR Intervention

Tamiko Thiel

Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez , – ongoing
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    Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez
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Maria Hernandez was a Bushwick activist murdered for her fight to free the area of drug use. In 1989 Bushwick Park was renamed “Maria Hernandez Park” to commemorate her memory, but the artist could not find any image of her on the Internet. This augmented reality installation uses 7 photos of various women named “Maria Hernandez,” taken randomly from the Internet and anonymized as inverse gold icons, to commemorate this “invisible” activist. The augments are geolocated on site in Maria Hernandez Park, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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  • genres
    • installations
      • augmented reality (AR)
  • subjects
    • History and Memory
      • historical sites
    • Power and Politics
      • legislation
      • politics
      • violence
    • Society and Culture
      • communities
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Hardware
iOS and Android mobile devices
Software
Layar augmented reality app
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Bushwick AR Intervention
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