Additional Speakers: Miriam Esquitín and Priscilla Yu
A collaboration with the DAC standing committee, this session presents a dynamic conversation exploring “New Media Architecture(s): Vancouver”, a digital media exhibition that brings augmented reality artworks into dialogue with “Heron’s Dreamscape”, a vibrant public mural by artist Priscilla Yu in Vancouver, BC. Curated by Johannes DeYoung, Gustavo Alfonso Rincon, and Miriam Esquitín, the exhibition reimagines the role of public art through digital augmentation, activating the mural as a living interface between place, community, and technology.
This panel features the curators alongside Priscilla Yu in a discussion that delves into the collaborative process behind the exhibition and the evolving relationship between physical murals and digital interventions. Together, they’ll explore how site-specific digital media can expand the narrative capacity of public artworks, deepen community engagement, and reframe our experience of urban environments.
Through an interdisciplinary lens, the conversation will address the potentials and challenges of blending artistic traditions with emerging technologies — and what it means to co-author public space in the digital age.
Audience members will gain insight into the artistic, curatorial, and technical approaches that shaped False Creek Frequencies, while reflecting on the broader cultural impact of art in augmented urban landscapes.
SIGGRAPH 2025 website: https://s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=thea_118&sess=sess335
Johannes DeYoung is an internationally recognized artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany; Hesse Flatow (Crush Curatorial), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1 Print Studio, New York, NY; as well as numerous festival screenings in countries such as Australia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, and Vietnam. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal. DeYoung is appointed Associate Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008—2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design.
Dr. Gustavo Alfonso Rincon (Ph.D., M.Arch., M.F.A., B.S, B.A.) earned his doctorate in Media Arts and Technology at UCSB. Rincon is educated as an architect, artist, curator, & media arts research scholar. His academic works have been exhibited nationally & internationally along with serving clients globally. His work with DigitalFutures has gained a global audience with a yearly program along with a series of free summer workshops. His dissertation “Shaping Space as Information: A Conceptual Framework for New Media Architectures,” led to a Postdoctoral appt. at the AlloSphere Research Facility, affiliated with the Media Arts & Technology Program, California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.