AR underwater city visions
A collective is showcasing AR overlays on sculpture to imagine submerged cities — think site‑specific AR + physical forms that blend urban ruin and marine life. (x.com) It’s a useful blueprint for public installations that want to layer mythic narratives over existing architecture. (x.com)
GenerativeMedia.club’s post that circulated the visuals attributes the source to Instagram user @arsonrivvers.visions and credits algorithmic artist Paolo Curtoni in the repost caption, according to the club’s TikTok repost of the same material. (tiktok.com) The work mounts persistent AR textures to physical sculpture to render collapsed cityscapes colonized by coral and fish, a tactic that echoes Mel Chin’s AR activation “Unmoored,” which overlaid a flooded, shipwrecked tableau around his Wake sculpture in Times Square. (architectmagazine.com) City-scale AR public-art efforts have used dedicated geolocation toolkits—Niantic’s Lightship powered the Kinfolk project that installed AR monuments by four artists at fixed New York sites. (theartnewspaper.com) Artist-facing spatial-AR platforms such as Hoverlay explicitly market geolocated anchors and content-management tools for placing digital layers over real-world sculptures and facades. (hoverlay.com) The visual strategy borrows from a longer practice of underwater sculpture that stages physical ruins as ecological galleries—Jason deCaires Taylor has placed more than 1,200 submerged sculptures worldwide to create artificial reefs. (underwatersculpture.com) Technical how‑tos for building “underwater” AR portals exist: Zappar’s Mattercraft tutorial demonstrates creating animated, world-anchored underwater scenes with animated fish and performance tips suited to outdoor installations. (youtube.com) GenerativeMedia.club functions as a curated distribution point for generative and AR-focused work across TikTok, YouTube and Patreon, a network the collective uses to seed festival programmers and municipal arts departments with short clips and how‑to resources. (tiktok.com)
