This Book is a Camera - GIANT AR Experience

How it works?

Purchase the book “This Book is a Camera” by Kelli Anderson
On a mobile device open this link which takes you to the Augmented Reality (AR) experience showcasing some of the projects our community has made inspired by this book. (You need an Instagram account to access.)
Flip through pages of the book and see kids’ projects on top of selected pages through Augmented Reality (AR) on your mobile device! Photos of kids’ projects automatically pop up on top of each page for you to see!
Get inspired by the book and kids projects layered on top of it, come up with your own ideas, build them, take a photo and send it to us.
We’ll add your project to the AR experience and exhibit it at “Create Mode in Progress” exhibition, to be held at The GIANT Room and Southampton Arts Center in Fall.

VIEW THE AR EXPERIENCE ON A MOBILE DEVIDE

Discover 100 ideas and add to them!

Published by the Museum of Modern Art, “This Book is a Camera” is devised and written by Kelli Anderson and is actually a working camera that lives in a pop-up book! In the book, you’ll find: a piece of paper folded into a working 4x5" camera, a lightproof bag, 5 sheets of photo-paper "film", and development instructions using household ingredients or photo chemicals. There is also a companion lightmeter app available for iPhone. “This Book is a Camera” is a satisfying demonstration of the connection between design & science and structure & function. In Kelli’s concise and well-articulated writing, she explains how a structure as simple as paper can tap into the intrinsic properties of light to produce a photograph.

“This Book is a Camera” book has sparked many GIANT kids imagination to build amazing projects inspired by their imagination. We have used Augmented Reality (AR) technology to showcase a number of these projects on top of selected pages of the book.

We invite our community to check out the book, explore kids’ projects through AR experience on their mobile, get inspirations, build their own projects, and send us a photo of their projects.

We’ll add your project to the AR experience and exhibit it at “Create Mode in Progress” exhibition, to be held at The GIANT Room and Southampton Arts Center in Fall.

Curious to know what the AR experience could look like? Simply open this link on your mobile device and place your phone in front of the book cover image on this page and see the 3D robot appearing in front of your eyes!

View THE AR EXPERIENCE ON A MOBILE DEVICE

Below you can see some of kids projects being built inspired by book and discoverable on the AR Experience. Make your own ideas, take a photo and share with us so we add it to the AR experience as well as “Create Mode in Progress” exhibition.