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The Heavy Projects

The Heavy Projects

In collaboration with Grand Center, the Art and Life Alliance and MOMO, Heavy has completed a digital, immersive, and interactive mural on the Moto Museum (Steve Smith, Owner) wall (85′ x 21′) in St. Louis @ Grand Center. The mural launched during the Dancing in the Streets event on Sept. 21, 2013. There are 14 basic shapes embedded in the painted mural. The Re+Public app unlocks 42 digital variations of those basic shapes and allows users to view and randomly re-compose the mural into hundreds of variations. http://theheavyprojects.com/index...

Re+Public: Wynwood Walls

Re+Public: Wynwood Walls

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Video Creator: Heavy Organization: The Heavy Projects | Re+Public =*=*=*= Description: Augmented 5 large outdoor murals (day and night) during Art Basel with fully immersive / interactive AR environments. Where to find it: Currently an android app in beta Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

Re+Public: Bowery Wall Mural Resurrections

Re+Public: Bowery Wall Mural Resurrections

Nomination for Auggie Award: Best AR Video Creator: Heavy Organization: The Heavy Projects | Re+Public =*=*=*= Description: Created a virtual history of the Bowery Wall murals in NYC by using AR to “resurrect” all the previous murals that had been painted in the wall. Where to find it: Currently an android app in beta Platforms: Mobile Additional Screenshots:...

BC (“Heavy”) Biermann

BC (“Heavy”) Biermann

Heavy is a tech artist and academic living in Southern California. Deriving his pseudonym from his penchant for philosophical discussion, Heavy possesses an interdisciplinary background that comprises technology, academia, and the arts. With a PhD in Humanities [ Intermedia Analysis ] from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he has worked as both a university professor and a tech developer in Anaheim, Prague, and Saint Louis. Since 2007, Heavy has internationally presented his academic work, which explores augmented reality, art and semiotics in public space. As a kind of synthesis between scholarly inquiry and emerging media, Heavy founded The Heavy Projects to investigate how the fusion of creativity and technology can uncover new modes of relaying ideas. Building upon existing technological and theoretical frameworks, Heavy creates innovative interfaces between digital design and physical worlds in ways that provoke the imagination and problematize existing styles of art, design, and interaction....