John Craig Freeman

By Rupert Jenkins, University Press of Colorado, 2026. 

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In a recent interview, Professor John Craig Freeman was asked to comment on students’ prospects as they graduate into a job market dominated by automation and the rise AI, in and around Boston.

Paramount Urban Screen, WaveForms – Multimedia Art Occurrence, LED public art, John Craig Freeman, 2026. Boston.

INSTALLATION SPACE
49 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, October 7, 4:00pm-8:00pm

Saturdays & Sundays 12:00pm-6:00pm

Augmented reality installations by John Craig Freeman and Michael Lewy
On View October 7 – November 27, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user’s environment in real time. AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it. Freeman and Lewy have installed their distinctive augmented reality works at the Installation Space gallery, as well as at access points in downtown North Adams public spaces. The augmented art is viewable by downloading the free Hoverlay app on a mobile device.

CLIMATE CHANGE MIGRATION STORIES
An augmented reality installation by John Craig Freeman
Climate Change Migration Stories is an augmented reality public art project designed for exhibition in public squares and other publicly accessible spaces. People encounter the project by way of wayfinding signage placed at the physical location, with information and instructions about how to experience the augmented reality content. Users use common mobile phones to guide themselves on a walking tour through a series of virtual scenes. The experiences consist of world scale, photorealistic scans created on location in and around the U.S./Mexico border.

John Craig Freeman is a public artist with over twenty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. His work seeks to expand the notion of public by exploring how digital networked technology is transforming our sense of place.

Climate Change Migration Stories is an augmented reality public art project designed for exhibition in public squares and other publicly accessible spaces. People encounter the project by way of wayfinding signage placed at the physical location, with information and instructions about how to experience the augmented reality content. Users use common mobile phones to guide themselves on a walking tour through a series of virtual scenes. Being developed at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, the resulting work consists of world scale experiences created on location in and around the U.S./Mexico border.

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Michael Rees is an artist working in themes of figuration, language, technology, and the social to weave a sculptural mélange. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Yale University. He also won a Deutscher Akademischer Austaushdienst for undergraduate study at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany, with Joseph Beuys. Rees is currently professor of sculpture and digital media at William Paterson University, and Director of the Center for New Art there.