Adobe Festival of the Impossible
Esme Bella Rice01A opera singer interacts with a giant computer-generated version of their face while performing. This interactive art piece, *Faces[on]Display* by Can Büyükberber, is part of the *Festival of the Impossible* exhibit now showing at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, California.
Esme Bella Rice02Gallery guests interact with the art piece _In a Whirl (Studies in Perceptual Glitching)_ by Elaine Buckholtz.
Esme Bella Rice03Buckholtz's art piece requires the viewers to wear special glasses.
Esme Bella Rice04Neil Mendoza's _Robotic Voice Activated WordKicking Machine_.
Esme Bella Rice05Russell Brown explains his installation titled _The Elements_, a piece of kinetic AR art. Brown is a senior principal designer at Adobe, which sponsored _Festival of the Impossible_ to show off its new AR creation tools.
Esme Bella Rice06Gabriel Barcia-Colombo shows his work of art titled _Descent: Or Do Avatars Dream of Auto-Rigged Sheep_.
Esme Bella Rice07Barcia-Colombo's work asks attendees to view AR characters dreaming as they sleep on tiny beds. The iPad serves as the viewport into the augmented world.
Esme Bella Rice08Suzanne Husky's _On the proliferation of mermaids in times of shipwreck_ overlays AR elements on top of a painting.
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