N.H.-based artist Karina Mitchell collaborates with voice artist Sydney Kilgore on the interactive installation titled “Gilded Traveler Remixed.”  The augmented reality art is on view at the Nashua public library specifically for Art Week using the free app Membit. The installation is at several other libraries including New York Public Library Main branch, Boston Public Library courtyard and Concord Public Library.

Karina Mitchell has a background in printmaking with a Bachelor of Art from Bennington College. (1994) She studied in Vermont and in Paris. While in Vermont she studied with Catherine Mosely, the master printer for Robert Motherwell. While in Paris, she studied under Daniel Abadie, international curator and art historian. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, art festivals and presentations in the USA and internationally. Her intermedia art Transcend The Bomb was recently installed at Sounds Images and Data 2015 directed by Lanfranco Aceti and Tae Hong Park. Selected venues include the Donaufestival in Austria, the Innovation Festival in Milan Italy, the Hermitage State Museum in Russia and Sibelius Hall in Finland. Karina’s current work specializes in interactive media, public domain mash-ups, and scripted art which has been noted by academics in MIT presentations, Dartmouth E-media studies, and the Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. In addition, her work has been discussed by art historians via the Art 21 blog. She is interested in communication and some of her pieces respond to phone calls, text, instant messages and select social media. Much of her work is generated through collaboration and results in music, video, scripted art, digital performance, collage, sculpture and painting. Her work forms in both poetic and structured ways and the end piece tends to be a condensed emotive unit. Karina’s work is also published under the digital identity Misprint Thursday.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTIST TURNS PUBLIC LIBRARIES INTO
AUGMENTED REALITY ART DESTINATIONS
Inspired by road trips and storytelling, artist and tech co-founder Karina Mitchell
produces a series of interactive installations at public libraries including NYC, Boston, NH

WHO: Fine artist and poet Karina Mitchell and Voice Artist Sydney Kilgore, both from New Hampshire

WHY: To create new interactive experiences at select public libraries inviting people to experience augmented reality art.  The artist hopes to encourage learning about emerging technologies and digital access to local communities as well as visitors.

WHEN: The exhibitions open October 16 and run through the fall.

HOW: The artist re-imagined an analog series of collages composed of maps, gold leaf, pencil and 8 original haiku. These collages become the visual backdrop in the remixed version of location-based digital art. Guests can download the free app Membit on the app store to view and hear the sound installations when they visit the specific locations.

ABOUT:
[Boston-] -- (October, 2021) -- Libraries are places of discovery and learning which makes them great places to launch a new way to discover fine art: through location based augmented reality.  When you visit a local library, in addition to the books and media and educational resources, you will find a bulletin board with local arts and culture events, current political meetings and agendas as well as discovering information about new places of interest to visit.  Now when you visit certain libraries you will find that New Hampshire artist and poet, Karina Mitchell, extends the boundary of the local library and turns the public landmark into an interactive art installation in her new work “Gilded Traveler: Remixed”  The interactive fine art exhibition, which opens October 16, 2021 is on display, digitally at the Boston Public Library main branch, New York City Public Library, main branch as well as the main local public library in Concord, NH and Nashua, NH. 

Artist and technology co-founder Karina Mitchell explains: “I wanted to use libraries for the locations of this installation because they are central resources in communities and places I enjoy visiting for inspiration.”  The installation “Gilded Traveler: Remixed'' includes spoken word and voice art by 2020 NH Poetry Out Loud champion, Sydney Kilgore.  The audio track is a soundscape remix of the spoken word haiku featured in the 8 collages combined with an atmospheric sound collage to provide an immersive experience.  

ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Karina Mitchell has a background in printmaking  with a Bachelor of Art from Bennington College. (1994)  She studied in Vermont and in Paris. Karina is also the co-founder of Membit, the app that’s used in the augmented reality exhibit “Gilded Traveler: Remixed”

Voice artist Sydney Kilgore is a recent graduate of Concord High School in Concord, NH, and was the 2020 NH Poetry Out Loud champion. Sydney is currently in her first year at Smith College, studying World Literatures.

About Membit: MEMBIT, INC. is an augmented reality company developing solutions for art, entertainment, business and education. Membit’s technology consists of both in-home and specialty location-based patented technology.

You can find me here:

Website: http://www.karinamitchell.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-mitchell-95b9786/

Email: kmisprint@gmail.com

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