Welcome to the augmented reality component of Tributaries! If you haven’t done so already, download and install the app here. Shown above is the image your device needs to activate the animated scene. With the Tributaries app loaded on your mobile device, aim the camera of your mobile device at the image above, or found within your environment, to view the augmented reality animation.

Tributaries is a multimedia installation located outside of Vari Hall at York University, created specifically for Toronto’s 2022 edition of Nuit Blanche. Tributaries uses a mist screen projection and AR content of native and invasive species to mark and draw attention to the freshwater habitats of the York University campus area that were buried or rechanneled as a result of urban development. The animated projection and superimposed AR component show the biodiversity of the surrounding area to create an ethereal intermingling of native and invasive species.

Programmed by Archive/Counter-Archive as part of Biophilia: Artist and Archive Exhibition; Curated by Janine Marchessault.

* ‘Biophilia’ references a love of living things, and at the heart of the exhibition are more-than-human animals and our entanglements with them.

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