ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates Material Inquiry by describing a project that incorporated Augmented Reality (AR) as an expressive material with which children and adults explored and created meaningful relationships. The exhibitions are staged in one of the art galleries on the campus of Columbia University, or in other less formal settings. Since 2016, after exploring AR in one of Sean’s digital art workshops, this technology has become one of Marta’s favorite digital tools. Similarly, with AR, parents of infants often see their babies doing things independently as if for the first time—which can be a moving and powerful experience. That is, when watching a video of their child working with paint while simultaneously standing in front of the finished painting, parents seem to encounter their young children as independent people who are capable of making their own marks on a piece of paper and, by extension, on the world.
