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sacredGS AR App

Synatra Smith
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About sacredGS AR App

sacredGS AR App is the augmented reality app to activate the interactive features of the map on bit.ly/sacredGS. Since its inception, this project has expanded into a virtual collage of local public artworks, African sculptures and instruments from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Temple University Libraries’ Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, and spiritual and metaphysical items in order to transform each included outdoor sculpture and mural into altars adorned with the latter elements. “Sacred Geographic Superimpositions” is a spiritual scholarly endeavor to document and celebrate ephemeral Black public art in Philadelphia in a manner that transports them into the ancestral plane of the “transformative archive” to bring scholarly research and data curation out of the academy into a curated space grounded in storytelling and interpretation.

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