Boston Cyberarts is proud to present The Illusion Layer, an exhibition that highlights artists using Artivive to bring their 2D artworks to life. Artivive is a relatively new augmented reality app, out of Austria, which is designed for traditional 2D artists and animators to augment animations or videos on top of their paintings, prints, and murals without learning complicated code or a new programming language. Artivive is intuitive to use. For both the artist and the viewer, you don't have to know much about the tech in order to get straight to the content. The interface is simple and basically non-technical, however the results can be surprising and sophisticated. 

The exhibition will include original prints and drawings, both 2D and sculptural as well as images of some of the murals in the greater Boston area that incorporate the app. There will even be an augmented couch. 

Boston Cyberarts has been interested in the use of augmented reality (AR) in art making from its inception. Beginning in 2001, when University of Washington HIT Lab researcher Bruce Campbell presented his AR research called BCFlora at the Boston Cyberarts Festival central headquarters, we have presented AR art in the gallery and outdoors in public space. Most recently, Boston Cyberarts commissioned six works of AR art by Nancy Baker Cahill, John Craig Freeman and Will Pappenheimer as part of The Auto Show, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy's public art program up for the year. 

Artists include Growth Spurt, Rob 'Problak' Gibbs, Sofie Hodera, William Russell Pensyl, Martha Rettig, Julia Rue, Sneha Shrestha, Abraham Evensen Tena, Jody Zellen and more.