After three months of intensive research, development, and creative production, our resident artists have completed their original augmented reality monuments for a future Los Angeles.
Join Oxy Arts on Sunday, September 19th to view these new artworks for the first time via the 4th Wall app. Timed activations are planned for each site (information below), or stop by anytime between 11am – 2pm to view the artworks.
You’re invited to travel to all four sites throughout the day. The sites are all accessible by Metro. The artworks will be hosted indefinitely in the 4th Wall app and can be viewed at any time after the launch. Instructions on how to use the app are included below.
Patrick Martinez, Homegrown
11am
Empty Lot at the NE corner of Figueroa and Arroyo Glen
Viewing location: 6144 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Joel Garcia with Meztli Projects, Astrorhizal Networks
12pm
Yaangna Park
Viewing location: 540 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Nancy Baker Cahill, Motherboard
1pm
Los Angeles City Hall
Viewing location: Grand Park, across the street from City Hall 231 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Audrey Chan, The Assata Center
2pm
LAPPL Headquarters
Viewing location: NE Corner of 8th Street and Columbia
The prompt for the artworks was to conceive an AR blueprint for a site-specific imagined future in Los Angeles, with a focus on future technologies that might transform public space. Artists were invited to choose any site in Los Angeles, and to consider how past and present social, economic, and cultural inequities, power imbalances, and other forms of subjection might operate in that space. The prompt encouraged artists to imagine a radically equitable future sited in an emergent present; and in the process to consider if and how new forms can reckon with the way monuments have historically functioned as agents of oppression.
