Saturday April 14 2012

Location: Museum Boerhaave
Address: Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10, Leiden

Augmented Bodies

Four talented students of the Master Lens-Based Media of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam explored different perceptions of the human body. Their research resulted in five portraits which discuss the promise of the body, the weighty body and the constructed body. The portraits are enhanced with a virtual layer. The hidden augmented world
of the works is revealed when a smartphone or tablet is directed at the portraits. On the digital screen the hidden reality unfolds engaging the spectator and resulting in a strong connection with the works. Augmented Bodies, the first augmented exhibition in the Netherlands, is an imaginative experiment that will confront the visitor with the naked truth. The truth of the human body.

Augmented Bodies is a cooperation between Museum Boerhaave and the Piet Zwart Institute and is endorsed by Stichting DOEN.

The exhibition will be open from April 15 until September 09 2012.