Objects in Spaces

Dear blog - 

I can't escape the 3D scans! They seem to follow me around in space, but they are just floating around and no one besides me and my phone can see them. They are my own personal ghosts that I created, and some of them are me! For this exercise I was really playing with the idea of physical presence and objecthood.

I took these pictures like this: the app on my phone that I use to take the scans has a feature where I can put the scans "back in the real world" through AR view. I have to pan my phone around so the technology can get a sense of my surroundings, and then the object appears in the space 3 dimensionally in my phone. From the outside, this process just looks like me waving my phone around (maybe looking like I am trying very hard to receive cell service somewhere). Presence and objecthood stood out the most to me when I was trying to place my 3D scans by the library and my friends came up and asked me what I was doing. To me, what I was seeing through my phone felt so apparent and so real. But to any concerned onlookers, I "looked like I was 65" trying to take a picture of something (according to a friend).

A collection of Blue Charlottes in front of the Mudd Library (smallest to biggest from left to right)

Blue Charlotte in giant form standing on Boldt way 

and 

Blue Charlotte in miniature form standing on Evan's hand

 

Ice cream in Library Plaza, on couch, on counter and in washing machine

Mailbox from home in fridge, stairway, by sink, on smoke shack, and on library

Stairs in places, including in stairs

Scan of right-hand holding computer mouse in library plaza and attached to arm of couch

Situations involving Bubbles...

Situations involving sinks...