Pavilions

Aiming to view all of the art at display at the Venice Biennial? That target will be infinitely more difficult to achieve this year because the Biennale has been extending into augmented reality, the non-material parallel reality now accessible through contemporary smartphones. Accessible by Giardini visitors, but as well as artists! Numerous virtual pavilions by art collectives such as Manifest.AR have come to existence at the 54th Venice Biennale. With artworks on display created by artists worldwide, positioned at GPS positions within the Biennial grounds, without the approval of the Biennial organization.

Fortunately, there is a way to battle this infiltration of virtual pavilions! We urge all Biennial to make use of their exclusive physical presence in the Giardini and delete any illegal virtual pavilions encountered. To view and delete pavilions Artist Sander Veenhof created an easy-to-use tool, available inside the Giardini, in augmented reality.

On three public screens around Venice, live updates on the battle will be shown. Along with each visitors' score of pavilions deleted. And the score of pavilions manifesting nevertheless.


INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Download (free) app "Layar" on iPhone 3GS/4 or Android smartphone
2) Search and open "Battling Pavilions" while inside the Giardini
3) Locate the unauthorized pavilions and delete them. Your score: views X minutes the pavilion resided in the Giardini.

http://sndrv.nl/battle