[spectre] infiltr.AR - virtual infiltration into White House and Pentagon

[Sander Veenhof]

Tweeting to Obama but not getting through? Since February 25th you can
now reach him right at his desk in the Oval Office. A virtual Twitter
balloon has been placed inside the White House and another one
infiltrated the Pentagon using the GPS-based Augmented Reality browser
Layar. The balloons display the latest tweets containing the hashtags
#OvalOfficeChat or #PentagonChat respectively.

The placement of the two Augmented Reality balloons was the mission of
infiltr.AR, a live augmented reality infiltration event orchestrated
from a temporary command centre at Club Karlsson in Amsterdam. It’s
the latest experiment in crossing physical borders by members of the
Manifest.AR artist group, best known for their previous infiltration
project: an unofficial guerrilla exhibition inside the MoMA NYC last
year in October.

The virtual Twitter balloons inside the White House and the Pentagon
can be seen ‘for real’ using Layar. Search and open the layer
“INFILTRAR.” When not inside the two buildings, an ‘artist impression’
of the augmented space will appear, including an actual live copy of
the Twitter balloon.

Since Manifest.AR members do not have press passes, and most probably
never ever will, we are highly curious to see any screenshots of the
virtual public message board inside the Pentagon press room, so
journalists, give it your best shot! (And Tweet it hashtagged
#pentagonchat please).

-Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek of Manifest.AR

http://manifestar.info/infiltrar