Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Amplifier has unveiled their latest AR project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing.

“ENCODED: Change the Story, Change the Future,” is a collaborative effort between film-maker and curator Tracy Renée Rector and Amplifier. ENCODED features work from seventeen Indigenous artists living across Turtle Island, also known as North America.

“Using augmented reality (AR), the artists intervened in the gallery’s 19th-century paintings—generic and imagined landscapes, portraits of affluent settlers and grandiose historical scenes—digitally superimposing cosmological figures, pow-wow dancers and suffocating layers of ivy.” — Petala Ironcloud, The Art Newspaper

A past partner of Seattle Design Festival, we’re proud to be in community with this nonprofit media and design lab and feature their work in this edition of Design in Community.

In 2018, Executive Director of Amplifier Cleo Barnett was a jury member for AIA Seattle and SDF’s competition, “Displaced: Design for Inclusive Cities.” The following year, Barnett helped create collaborative exhibition “Sanctuary: Design for Belonging” as the Exhibit Graphic Art Curator. The exhibition centered design’s role in social innovation, shelter, resource hubs, gathering spaces and storytelling.

Help us celebrate design in community by visiting the Met (if you happen to be in NYC) or reading about the project and supporting their work from afar!

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Images courtesy of Amplifier