Daniel Phelps
Artist & Educator
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Anamorphic Dualities

Created By Daniel Phelps, this piece of digital art that utilizes an inverted LED screen mounted under a bridge that connects two buildings. This “Media Bridge” is located on the Georgia Tech campus, connecting Clough and Crossland towers. This anamorphic piece will eventually incorporate user tracking to give audiences a “holographic” effect, converting the structure’s…
The Future AmericanRetrospective (2019)

https://youtu.be/Vb4BvY02N88 My work as an Integrated Media Artist has allowed me to create and contribute to a wide variety of technology research initiatives and narratives. From robotics to linear documentary storytelling, my work always strives to incorporate emerging technology and apply it to emerging interdisciplinary fields. The Future American Retrospective: A Telerobotic VR Experience is…
Transcendence, AR Viewports in Architecture

AR Pavilion Starts around 1:50 ABSTRACT With the advent and integration of modern technologies via current smartphone designs, augmented reality devices and experiences are now commonplace. Artists, corporations, and academia have been using smartphone experiences to capitalize on the affordances that mobile AR has to offer. From selling home-goods to tabletop gaming, these types of…
Wonderglove, Physical Augmented Intermediate Layer

PDF Download Design Statement: To develop an intermediate layer between invisible forces in our world and connect it with our senses. Specifically, EM fields and our sense of touch. Believing that all things are connected, the physical, metaphysical, conscious and unconscious. Take the magnetosphere. It envelops the planet and protects us from radiation, solar flares…
AR Layers & Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PDF Download In my exploration, I have defined a class of XR that embodies the passive integration of our digital and physical worlds. Finding examples and building them myself, an Augmented Intermediate Layer (AIL) is defined as an unobtrusive overlay of digital information modifying our physical world. The term, Augmented Intermediate Layer, has its genesis…
What is an Augmented Intermediate Layer, or AIL?

Cross Post to Video Version As the physical and digital worlds begin to intervene in each of their respective realms, many are looking to mixed realities to parse information streams emanating from our ethereal and metaphysical lives. Formerly coined as mixed reality in 1994 [1], and what now some would, unfortunately, call the Metaverse™ [2];…
The Domino Effect (Documentary)

DANIEL PHELPS Co-Director Director of Photography Editor & Compositor MEGAN SPERRY Producer / Co-Director BRIAN PAUL Writer / Researcher For detailed information, you can find us at www.thedominoeffectmovie.com/ The Domino Effect is a feature-length documentary film that explores the process of real estate development in New York City anddigs deep to uncover the complex networks…
Peripheral Visions iPad Installation

This piece used a Jailbroken iPad and heavily modified Prezi presentation software. Prezi and automated hacking tools to morph the consumer software into an installation platform Hundreds of HQ scans and videos were “borrowed” from the NYPLibrary via pocket scanner over 3 months. Curated by Maria Antonella Pelizzari and with the help of curatorial assistants,…
The iPhoneoscope, Patent Application

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ECuy3TvfAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigWAU-21Fg Patent PDF Download The significance of this attempt is most critical when judged against my professional growth. The iPhonoscope was the start of creating and employing new creative tools into all of my work. This project was founded under the idea that we would use our phones as 3D viewers and augmented displays. The…
XR Works, Idea Pitch CREATE-X

This design artifact was used as a startup idea for Create X, a Georgia Tech Incubator. Made the second round and was rejected because of the scope. This project is also related to my writing here: LINK Download PDF