As curator for Wild Eye I was able to commission artist Shezad Dawood and writer Daisy Hildyard to create Ambiguous Machines – an augmented reality trail along Scarborough Seafront with accompanying short fiction by Daisy Hildyard.
Weaving together science, storytelling, myth and local knowledge, the work, accessed via QR codes along Scarborough’s seafront, explores the future of UK marine and coastal environments.
Comprising a public Augmented Reality trail, accessed via QR codes at three sites along Scarborough’s seafront, Ambiguous Machines envisions a future where sea levels have risen, Scarborough is underwater and humans and marine species have co-evolved to become hybrid.
Developed through dialogue with local scientists, conservationists and community groups, the work invites audiences to meet digital characters inspired by real-life local conservationists before becoming further immersed in this newly imagined world through an accompanying short fiction entitled The Aquarium from writer Daisy Hildyard.
AR development by Gabriel Stones. Sound by Slowfoam.
More info and video and audio pieces about the project here.
Jeanine Griffin 
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