My name is Mark Jenkins. I am a sculptor, installation artist. I do a lot of work outdoors, public
space art, street art, if you will. Total art career thing got started around 2003. I was
experimenting with packing tape as a sculpting medium and I found out a way to actually make a
cast out of a tin football I made and once I saw that work I realized I could use this
process to make cast of any object and eventually started making cast of my own body and second
was taking these sculptures and put them on the street and I think for me using sculptures in
an object to affect the space around it, it's a lot more interesting than sculpture. It's sort of
way to create a stage. You can affect the space, run an architectural sense, but when you really
start bringing people on the street, pigeons on the street, dogs on the street, fire trucks,
mom's squads, all that, you have this really rich environment for the artwork to vibrate against.
But it was really in 2006 that we kind of moved in a different direction with the hyper realistic
works because instead of being the idea of this is this art, it became a question of is this real
or even a lot of times it wasn't even a question people just made the assumption that our work
was real and kept kept going. So you could say we're drawn attention, getting people to pay
attention to their surroundings and kind of question the surroundings and maybe that's the
heart of what the project is about in some sense. We're using you know hyper realistic stuff but in
this case we're able to use, actually use our own bodies using my own body and then you can play
with it actually having the feet, feet wiggle and things like that or you know some of these
sculptures we're able to you know do 3D rotations and so much of the stuff that we do on the street
it ends up being a static pose. So here we have some very non-static and then interactive depending
on what side of the box you approach you get a different experience and I think all the stuff
we do on the street is a surprise and so that plays over into this project perfectly since
once you you know launch the app you're not sure what's going to pop up. Doing this project with
the augmented reality you get a sort of real-time experience where people can see the work in
context with where they're standing. So it's different than the internet. It's not the street
but it's not the internet. It's some sort of in-between place that's this trans dimensional.
