Last Tuesday 17th of September saw the first use of the ARML within the context of an artistic exhibition. Francisco Macia Varela from the UPF team worked alongside artists Niall Hill from UCL and Rafa Roeder from Goldsmiths to build an immersive installation titled “Supercel.” The project received funding from the Generalitat de Catalunya and had its opening as one of three pieces in the Immensiva Expo at the Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona. Supercel is a collaborative immersive installation that combines experimental projective AR and physical Arduino devices to deliver an interactive narrative set at a weather balloon launch in a drought-stricken future Catalunya. In the shadow of a Romanesque church in a dead reservoir, we are prompted by urgent radio instructions as we prep for a high-tech cloud seeding mission. The ARML was implemented as an in-universe high-tech device used to scan the space for environmental readings to be input in the Arduino machines for the mission.
