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Acknowledgements FCT [SFRH/BD/42555/2007] UT Austin|Portugal Program AZ Labs altLab, LCD and xDA Subvertice Local support at Maçal do Chão: Fernando Mendes, Valter Cruz, João Correia Support at PopUp Lisbon: Bruno Canas, Ferdinand Meier, João Ferreira, Paulo Martins Support at Sci|Art UCLA: Victoria Vesna, Adam Stieg |
Hug@ree was designed to be deployed all over the world in such a way that all instances collect tree hugs that become part of the same virtual world. The installation was exhibited at the Pop Up City exhibition in Lisbon, a bonsai “portable” version premiered at AZ Labs creativity exhibition in Porto followed by TEI'11 Art Explorations, a demo at the Artropocode meeting in Santiago de Compostela, an installation at the UCLA Summer Institute program Sci|Art in Los Angeles, and at the small village Maçal do Chão premiering the registration feature and usability tests. Hug@ree was also presented through a demonstration that was screened at IEEE WHC in Daejeon, where the ARTiVIS DiY forest surveillance kit with a Raspberry Pi was first used. The most recent nodes were implemented at Noosa with an indoor palmtree during Balance-Unbalance, at Sydney University during ISEA, and during European Researchers's Night at Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon. This ARTiVIS installation is always open to set up new Hug@ree nodes.
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+ info A portable version of Hug@ree was born from the need to present Hug@ree in a limited space and when there's no trees around, such as certain parts of cities or conference demos. It does keep the *real tree* factor, only in a different scale and body contact.
Online, participants will be able to upload a photo of themselves, but their hug will only be made part of the world when a participant hugs a tree for real. Multiple Hug@ree instances around the world collect tree hugs that are uploaded to an online platform, composing a global shared embrace of nature. The gallery of hugging trees serves to register users in the community to motivate active participation, and invite other participants to hug the tree, naturally expanding the ARTiVIS users database.
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