Artist Felipe Pantone turns the world’s streets into his AR canvas

Grand Palais Immersif’s existent accumulation Loading: Urban Art successful the Digital Age is an immersive accumulation that traces the past of municipality creation and sheds airy connected the interaction of integer technologies connected the enactment of thoroughfare artists. With Google Arts & Culture, we bring this beyond the assemblage walls done digital storytelling and a caller augmented world artwork by multimedia creator Felipe Pantone.

Pantone began doing graffiti arsenic a teenager, which influenced his benignant and attack to art. In his work, helium uses bold colors and geometrical patterns to make visually striking and dynamic compositions. He’s funny successful objects that tin beryllium physically manipulated truthful they respond to the situation they are placed successful and the mode the viewers manipulate them.

In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Acute Art, Felipe Pantone was funny successful utilizing the latest augmented world technologies from Google to research however unsocial municipality environments astir the satellite interaction his bold, visually striking geometric designs. The effect is Data Chromesthesia, Pantone’s archetypal artwork successful augmented reality.

It leverages Google's Geospatial Creator to crook streets astir the satellite into a surviving canvas, overlaying designs straight onto buildings and inviting you to acquisition the creation each astir you. Pantone’s creation augments the municipality landscape, utilizing ARCore Scene Semantics API to recognize the situation and recognise and colorize the buildings, streets and sidewalks, portion excluding cars, radical oregon trees. Data Chromesthesia dynamically reacts successful existent clip to the section aerial quality, utilizing unrecorded information from Google Maps Platform’s Air Quality API: if the aerial prime astir you is good, Pantone’s artwork volition show agleam vivid colors — but these volition slice to achromatic and achromatic if the aerial prime drops, engaging america with our situation successful a caller visceral way.

We invitation everyone to larn much astir the making of this artwork connected Google Arts & Culture and to acquisition it firsthand via the Acute Art app: simply measurement retired connected the streets and usage the Acute Art App to task Felipe Pantone’s augmented world artwork astir you.

The artwork is disposable successful streets astir the world, and if you’re fortunate to beryllium physically contiguous successful beforehand of the Grand Palais Immersif, you’ll person the accidental to respect the customized section artwork that’s lone disposable here. Step wrong the Grand Palais Immersif, and you’ll beryllium capable to acquisition much of Felipe Pantone enactment exhibited arsenic portion of the accumulation Loading, connected amusement until July 15, 2024; alongside section artists specified arsenic Bilel Allem oregon Seb Toussaint, and an archive of murals from each astir the satellite captured successful Street View by Google Arts & Culture arsenic portion of their Street Art collection.