Augmented Reality (AR) workshop #2 with Betty Yu

Join us in a virtual Augmented Reality (AR) workshop - and learn how you can, in a low budget way, create an Augmented Reality experience using your phone and laptop.

The Oxford Dictionary defines Augmented Reality as "a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view."

This workshop - which is part 2 of the workshop held in the fall, will be led by Betty Yu, a socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker, educator, and activist, who integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her artistic practice.

This free workshop will be limited to 12-15 participants, as you will be actively participating and showing work to each other. Priority will be given to BIPOC emerging artists and community members. Please RSVP here and we will follow up. Note: This will cover another variation of AR, so event if you attended the fall workshop, there will be little overlap. We will, however, give preference to newcomers.

Note: you will need access to a smart phone AND either a laptop or desktop computer, and you will have to be able to download a FREE AR app onto your cellphone or tablet beforehand .

Questions to workshop@twn.org

Betty Yu is a socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker, educator, and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her artistic practice. Ms. Yu's documentary "Resilience" about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Yu's multi-media installation, "The Garment Worker" was featured at Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Showcase. In 2020, she worked with housing activists create "Resistance in Progress" a multi-media installation featured at Queens Museum. Betty recently had her first solo exhibition, "(DIs)Placed in Sunset Park" at Open Source Gallery in September 2018 in New York City. She has also exhibited at many other museums and centers, and has been awarded numerous artist residencies and fellowships. In 2015, Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film "Three Tours" about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq and their journey to overcome their PTSD.

Betty is an adjunct assistant professor teaching new media, film theory, art and video production at various colleges in New York City, including The New School, John Jay College, Pratt Institute Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College.

Her work has received coverage in outlets including New York Times, HBO VICE News Tonight, i-D Vice Media, Art Forum, ARTNews, and more.