Join us to celebrate Into the Archives, a groundbreaking augmented reality project including a photo exhibition, documentary series, and newly-launched immersive photobook. Into the Archives tells the captivating journey of Damien McDuffie and other Bay Area creatives, who embarked on a global expedition to empower Black artists with the knowledge of how to augment their art through cutting-edge technology.

Schedule

• 9:30 am – 4 pm: Into the Archives: An Augmented Reality Experience exhibition \ Wilsey Court 
• 1 – 2:30 pm: Into the Archives Film Screenings + Talk \ Koret Auditorium

About the exhibition

Into the Archives: An Augmented Reality Experience is an AR exhibition anchored in AR artwork and Black archives. It is part of Damien McDuffie’s ongoing series that is part live magazine, part docuseries, and part AR exhibition about Black art and cultural technology. The exhibition retells the stories of Damien McDuffie and his team traveling through countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, spreading the knowledge of how to step into immersive storytelling through cutting-edge technology. By using McDuffie's Black Terminus AR application, viewers are invited to activate and engage with the artwork featured in the Into The Archives: Immersive Photobook.

About the Into the Archives team

Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist and developer. He is the founder of Black Terminus AR, an augmented reality camera company that lets artists and museums create, sell, or commission AR artworks. All that’s needed is the Black Terminus AR mobile camera app that helps bring artwork to life. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists. 

Theo Schear is a documentary filmmaker from Oakland, California. His first docuseries Hard To Swallow premiered at Canneseries 2024. He was a 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and a member of Detroit Public Television’s National Documentary Unit. His films have played on public television and at major museums and film festivals. His writing has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space, Documentary Magazine, Nieman Lab, and Film Threat.

Michael Bobino is an accomplished audio engineer, location sound mixer, and augmented reality book publisher based in San Francisco, California. Currently, he works as the audio operator for NBC Sports Bay Area, mixing pre- and post-game shows for the Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants, San Jose Sharks, San Francisco 49ers, and Oakland A’s. He is also the founder of F&M Publishing, a creative technology company dedicated to enhancing print and written media experiences through augmented reality.

Amir Aziz is a photographer and visual strategist from Oakland, California. He has spent over a decade capturing culture and changes in his community and abroad through images and documentary films with a mission to connect communities globally. Formerly a photojournalist at The Oaklandside and 2022 CatchLight Local Fellow, his work has also been featured in The New York Times, SF Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, KQED, ARTnews, and more. Recently completing a photography residency and exhibit in France, he now works independently in the New York Metropolitan area.

Ticket info

Free. Viewing this AR exhibition in Wilsey Court does not require a ticket to the museum. Museum tickets purchased separately.

Contact info

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