THE FUTURE OF ART Gone are the days when art was confined to a canvas.
With the click of a button, we are able to transport ourselves to a world where art and technology are intertwined. Instead of a passive spectator, we are agents in our own artistic experience, blurring the line between artist and viewer. Apps such as Blippar act as a portal, allowing us to strip away the countless layers of
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paint to reveal the creative journey beneath. For Scarlett Raven’s incredible augmented reality collection, The Danger Tree, the First World War is digitally recreated to the haunting words of poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Past, present and future collide for a new breed of art that is as unsettling as it is exciting.