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Augmented reality artwork by Nancy Baker Cahill, Cento (augmented reality artwork, 2023, Whitney Museum). The image illustrates a key body of work by Nancy Baker Cahill: her augmented reality (AR) animated drawings exploring environmental themes. The pictured work, Cento, was a site-responsive AR work presented at the Whitney Museum. It depicts a fictitious creature bio-engineered for survival in a toxic environment; participants used an app to collectively transform it by adding feathers that enabled new adaptive skills. A hybrid—part human, cephalopod, microbiome, avian, mycelial, marine and machine—it positions different species as one interconnected body, pointing to the necessity of collaboration and interdependence in the face of climate crisis. These works were publicly exhibited in prominent locations and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Nancy Baker Cahill. Copyright held by the artist.

Nancy Baker Cahill

AR animation still

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work and foundational project in Nancy Baker Cahill's career: her large-scale, site-responsive (appearing differently based on times and conditions) AR projects addressing environmental devastation, accountability and adaptability of life. These AR animated drawings have explored themes including environmental disruption and degradation, renewable energy production, interconnectedness of species and ecological imagination. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work and thematic focus, which brought Baker Cahill new recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Baker Cahill's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Nancy Baker Cahill, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.