Judy Chicago launches Rainbow AR Instagram app and contest
Judy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist, has launched Rainbow AR, an augmented reality app and Instagram contest. The project, created in collaboration with the Berlin-based nonprofit Light Art Space, allows users to create virtual smoke sculptures inspired by Chicago's Atmospheres series (1968). Users can download the app, generate colorful smoke effects, and share photos or videos on Instagram with specific tags for a chance to be featured by the artist. Chicago stated the work aims to 'soften and feminize the often aggressive and patriarchal world' and offers hope through visual metaphor during a time of limited human contact. The app is available for download on the Light Art Space website.
Key facts
- Judy Chicago launched Rainbow AR, an augmented reality app and Instagram contest.
- The project is inspired by her Atmospheres series of smoke sculptures from 1968.
- Rainbow AR was developed in collaboration with Light Art Space, a Berlin-based nonprofit.
- Users can create virtual smoke sculptures and share them on Instagram.
- Participants must tag @Judy.Chicago, @LightArtSpace, @IntMagicGroup and use #JudyChicago and #RainbowAR.
- Chicago will select works to feature on her Instagram channel.
- The app is designed for a time when human contact and public-private space relations are changing.
- Chicago described the project as a way to 'soften and feminize the often aggressive and patriarchal world'.
Entities
Artists
- Judy Chicago
Institutions
- Light Art Space
- University of California, Fresno
- Dior
- Salon 94
- Jessica Silverman Gallery
- Through the Flower Archives
- Artists Rights Society (ARS)
- Artribune
Locations
- Chicago
- Berlin
- Germany
- New York
- San Francisco
- Fresno
- California
- United States