[spectre] Biggâr is expanding

[Sander Veenhof]

The augmented reality artwork "Biggâr" by Dutch artist Sander Veenhof
is, at the moment, the biggest interactive virtual sculpture in the
world. It consists of 7.463.185.678 virtual blocks placed in the skies
around our globe, encapsulating the whole earth. Since its launch in
the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on the 18th of November 2010 the
artwork has been expanding into space 1 (virtual) meter each day. To
view a part of the global sculpture, the augmented reality browser
Layar is needed, available for iPhone 3GS/4 and Android smartphones.

With the press of a button, viewers can interact with the work by
changing the color of all of its 7.463.185.678 blocks at once, the
effects of their act propagating all over world instantly, from Japan
to Peru to Djibouti to Dubai. People from over a 100 countries have
already played with the worldwide sculpture so far.

Experiencing the work to its full extent requires some effort and
openness from its viewers on a conceptual level. The full sized
sculpture can never be witnessed as a whole. The infiniteness common
to the virtual experience has reached a boundary because of a physical
limitation. And because of the continuous expansion of its radius, the
sculpture will at some point become invisible to the human eye, when
having risen too high in the virtual sky to view it, transforming
Biggâr into a solely conceptual augmented reality phenomenon. So if
you want to see it for real, be quick!

http://sndrv.nl/biggar

- Download "Layar AR browser" from Apple store or Android market

- Search for layar "Biggar" and launch it

- Look up into the sky to see a fragment of the global sculpture