Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are the next natural progression of creative expression, or, if you will, AR and VR are seen as the evolution of art.
To answer the question, “how are AR or VR applicable or relevant to art?” you must first consider the greater question “What is art?” and how can Artivive help me as an artist to express my creative self in new and meaningful ways?

Although there are as many diverse and conflicting answers to that question as there are artists, there is one common theme which runs through them all — art strives to…

The appropriation of urban spaces by artists is nothing new, and street art expresses local cultures, politics, and society, turning art into an engagement tool. As a part of urban typography, graffiti and murals display identity. The use of augmented reality as a tool for street artists is becoming more popular in recent years, creating animated murals around the world. The future of augmented street art in the urban landscape is unlimited.

The city itself is composed of overlapping layers of visual information, authored by various social groups. What makes street art so dynamic is its ephemerality. It can be…

How many stories do we tell in our lives? As part of social human nature, our behavior is based on created and shared memories, showing mental images collectively. Mental images are related to a certain time-space, as they are part of a fictional spectrum of our perception, expressing emotions, and the capability to apprehend the surrounding. The virtual/mental images become part of the collective memory composing a chain of shareable experiences, that later on, can become the history narrated to the future society.

The traditional history is similar, except for the fact that it is curated intentionally to celebrate certain…