Project conceived and directed by Thierry Fournier, Augmented Window is a “sensitive observatory”. Artists and authors are invited to propose a critical interpretation or a work taking the landscape as the object. Their contributions are geotagged and searchable on a touch window, focused on a live video landscape. These contributions start in the landscape itself.

Augmented Window offers a curatorial, collective and prospective representation of a landscape, where the approaches are deployed in a common critical perspective, implemented through a principle of “augmented reality”. Here, the concept of augmented reality is not addressed in the sense of information or immersion addition, but questioned as the possibility of creating an area of ​​tension between different views. The screen acts as a window, framing the landscape with a real-time video. By zooming and moving the window intuitively by touch, the viewer can gradually discover and compare the contributions. The choice of a fixed vertical framing responds to the desire of promoting a breakthrough in depth, through a sensory experience.

The prototype of the project Augmented Window has resulted in a research project coordinated by Thierry Fournier in the research laboratory EnsadLab the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (Diip program, axis Sensitive Surfaces ). It is also developed in partnership with Medialab Sciences-Po, under the direction of Bruno Latour.