The Mixed And Augmented Reality Art Organisation

The Mixed and Augmented Reality Arts Research Organisation (MARart.org) seeks to develop new dialogues in regards to high-end research methodologies, cultural inquiry and rep-resentation in the increasingly immersive and pervasive field of mixed and augmented reality art. We aim to do so independently of any institutional involvement as we value a (non hier-archical) networked community approached to research and discussion. This initiative aims to scope the field of MARart, through the presentation and analysis of par-ticular research outcomes, in order to develop criteria that can assess MARart's production and position within the media arts. The research endeavours to develop flexible strategies for hybridised research practice, in a number of open platforms that will scope current trends and exemplary models from a variety of approaches. Artistic practices in MARart will be discussed in order to locate new research (paradigms?) that address issues including cultural absorption, post-biological identity, social codes and systems, mobile computing, commercialization and intellectual property, with particular regard to the media art field. This is an open group for researchers dealing with mixed reality art focusing on augmentation as a medium. It has a specific (conceptual) focus on convergent realities as art mediums and the theoretical discourses that surround this field. We are not a commercial /advertsing group, in fact we strive to be the opposite of this- an open community for free exchange of ideas, projects and discussion relating to this really cool media art field.
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Keywords: think tanks