NANCY BAKER CAHILL
XR PROJECTS
Mushroom Cloud | 2021
AR Intervention in Miami, FL
Motherboard | 2021
slipstream | 2021
CONTRACT KILLERS | 2021
Shown at the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria
Contract Killers is a site-specific, augmented reality series created by Nancy Baker Cahill, and collaboratively developed into a unique and powerful NFT project with several co-conspirators. The digital assets are minted on the environmentally responsible Tezos blockchain, and paired with physical assets, rewards and consequences outlined in a reimagined smarter contract, and essays from the Artist; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Executive Director Hesse McGraw; and noted art attorney, Sarah Conley Odenkirk, partner at the law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP.
The project launched on Snark.art, an online platform which incubates artists' innovations on the blockchain.
For more information visit: https://drops.snark.art/nancy_baker_cahill
Contract Killers is a site-specific, augmented reality series created by Nancy Baker Cahill, and collaboratively developed into a unique and powerful NFT project with several co-conspirators. The digital assets are minted on the environmentally responsible Tezos blockchain, and paired with physical assets, rewards and consequences outlined in a reimagined smarter contract, and essays from the Artist; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Executive Director Hesse McGraw; and noted art attorney, Sarah Conley Odenkirk, partner at the law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP.
The project launched on Snark.art, an online platform which incubates artists' innovations on the blockchain.
For more information visit: https://drops.snark.art/nancy_baker_cahill
Legacy | 2021
Legacy, originally commissioned by SXSW, illustrates the calamitous forces of climate disaster and dislocation by animating an abstracted tree as it twists, breaks apart, and coalesces. Formally the drawing transitions from organic bark-like marks, to inorganic, metaphorically urban, glass and mirror fragments. Using original digital mark making to render organic forms underscores the artist's intention to highlight unnatural developments of all kinds. Accessed via smartphones and tablets, the monumental drawing remains invisible to the naked eye, and leaves no physical trace. Legacy emerged from Baker Cahill’s intention to realize the synthesis of ideas, technology, and art to transform awareness about the urgent and interrelated effects of inequality and human-centered decision making. The drawing attempts to push new media in uncharted directions, and prompt discoveries related to the (re)evolution of nature, and the accelerated consequences of human intervention and impact. Legacy will be shown in Berlin as part of an exhibition at Synthesis Gallery and over the Pacific Ocean as part of Baker Cahill’s solo show at Honor Fraser Gallery.
LAST DANCE | 2020
AR artwork, commissioned by Snap Spectacles
LIBERTY BELL | 2020
AR artwork, commissioned by Art Production Fund
EVER NOW | 2019
AR artwork, commissioned by Facebook AIR
EVER NOW Dancer | 2019
AR artwork, commissioned by Facebook AIR
MARGIN OF ERROR | 2019
AR artwork, commissioned by Desert X
REVOLUTIONS | 2019
AR artwork, commissioned by Desert X
MARGIN OF ERROR VR
VR drawing with original brush strokes inspired by the site it was intended for, the Salton Sea. Sound sourced and mixed directly from the site itself. This drawing was later translated into AR for the Desert X Biennial in the Coachella Valley and geo-located above the Salton Sea. The VR experience of this drawing allows the viewer to teleport right into the heart of the drawing itself as it swirls and swells around the viewer 2019
REVOLUTIONS VR
VR drawing with original brush strokes
HOLLOW POINT 101 VR
Video capture of Virtual Reality fine art drawing, 2017
HOLLOW POINT 103 VR
Video capture of Virtual Reality fine art drawing, 2017