Even before stepping into the Hyde Park Art Center, visitors are welcomed by Bad @ Reality (2020), a site-specific AR-interactive mural by Bad at Sports, a Chicago-based, multidisciplinary art collective. A collaboration of Brian Andrews, Ryan Peter Miller, and Duncan MacKenzie, the mural fills the whole wall of the center’s entrance and was presented as part of Artists Run Chicago 2.0, an exhibition that celebrated Chicago’s independent artists and art scene.
Miller’s black and white illustrations bring bits and pieces of work produced by Chicago artists Jim Duignan, Brendan Fernandes, Michelle Grabner, Kerry James Marshall, Temporary Services, Edra Soto, Jessica Stockholder, and Amanda Williams, together. By scanning the illustrations with the free AR app developed by Andrews, viewers can be immersed in drawings expanding out from the wall and voices of represented artists sharing their perspectives on their own works.
