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July 5, 2023
FEATURE
New immersive AR experience brings student creativity to life
Australian artists create a brand new immersive educational experience, inspiring global cocreation and connection to the environment, powered by iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
Inspired by a curiosity for the natural world, Deep Field is a brand new immersive art experience and app created by celebrated Australian artists and artistic technologists Tin Nguyen and Edward Cutting of Tin&Ed, using iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Initially available on the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the interactive augmented reality (AR) and sonic experience enables students and families all over the world to cocreate and connect in real time through their shared reimagining of the environment.
Harnessing the ability and portability of iPad Pro, combined with the precision of Apple Pencil to foster creativity, Deep Field participants are invited to take inspiration from artworks and the environment to attract their very own natural world, experimenting with vibrant color, shapes, and textures. After dreaming up fantastical plant parts, participants sketch their designs with Apple Pencil within the Deep Field iPad app, that are then added to a worldwide database stuffed with flora drawn by participants the world over in real time, cocreating a brand new ecosystem where the invisible worlds of plants are revealed through the magic of AR. Using the LiDAR Scanner on iPad Pro, participants watch their artworks bloom into spectacular 3D plant structures trailing across the floors, partitions, and ceilings around them, making a newly imagined, immersive natural world.
The guided experience encourages audiences to think about latest perspectives and think concerning the planet otherwise, from plants which have lived for a thousand years, to latest and imagined species. Taking the experience to a different level, the app’s UV mode also enables students and families to view their newly created world in a special dimension, as they experience the world as a pollinator.
Multidisciplinary artists Tin&Ed create vibrant, playful, and interactive experiences the world over that explore and push the interconnected boundaries between art, design, and technology, and the physical and digital worlds. More than an immersive simulation, Deep Field utilizes accessible technology that empowers people to bring creativity to life, while also shining a highlight on the necessity to protect the planet.
To bring the Deep Field experience to life at this scale, Tin&Ed fused their background in art and design and keenness for creative technologies to work skillfully across multiple devices. The power of MacBook Pro, Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and Studio Display, combined with 3D platform Unity, enabled the event of complex three-dimensional worlds that were then optimized for real time. The Deep Field app was designed using Apple’s ARKit framework, allowing for the combination of the depth-sensing features in iPad Pro with the M2 chip, to provide spectacular 3D plant structures in AR. The state-of-the-art LiDAR Scanner in iPad Pro offers cutting-edge depth-sensing capabilities to measure light distance, and uses pixel depth information of a scene to deliver faster and more realistic AR experiences.
“For us, AR is a strong artistic medium for storytelling since it is immersive and multisensory,” says Tin Nguyen, artist at Tin&Ed. “The power of the M2 chip on iPad Pro has made it possible to create a piece that allows children from across the globe to assume latest worlds together in real time.”
“Deep Field encourages children to look, listen, and think more deeply concerning the natural world and their place inside it,” says Edward Cutting, artist at Tin&Ed. “We hope they arrive away from the experience feeling a way of wonder and curiosity and a deeper connection to nature and one another.”
To enhance the multisensory experience, Deep Field encompasses a multichannel soundscape of forgotten and extinct species by celebrated audio naturalist Martyn Stewart, bringing a brand new appreciation to the fantastic thing about the noisy environment of the natural world. Stewart, together together with his foundation, The Listening Planet, has made it his life’s work to catalog the sounds of the planet and produce nature’s voice to the world within the hopes of safeguarding its future.
Deep Field is now available for college kids and families on the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and shall be available for visitors on the Getty Center in Los Angeles from Saturday, July 8, until Sunday, July 16.
“Deep Field is a brand new opportunity for our youngest visitors to experience the intersection of art and technology,” says Dr. Michael Brand, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s director. “Thanks to the vision of Tin&Ed, with the experience starting in our Yiribana Gallery, each participant shall be invited to look closely at nature through the lens of the world’s oldest continuous cultures, as depicted within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks. Children will even be encouraged to attach with their surroundings by observing and responding to the magnificent natural landscape, which is seamlessly integrated into our latest art museum campus in Sydney on Gadigal Country.”
“This is the Getty’s second collaboration with Tin&Ed, following the iOS app they created for our William Blake exhibition,” says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “Deep Field allows visitors to take inspiration from artworks within the Getty’s collection, including our own Central Garden (a living murals), and collaborate with people on the opposite side of the world to create an ever-changing interactive murals in augmented reality. In addition to bridging traditional art with latest technology, it serves as a mild reminder that we share this one earth with others and want to work as a team to look after it.”
Following availability in Sydney and Los Angeles, the Deep Field experience will embark on a world tour, arriving in Europe in October, after which on to Asia in November, including a stop at ArtScience Museum in Singapore.
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