Invisible visualities: Augmented reality art and the contemporary media ecology

Augmented reality (AR) art is a form of artistic expression that complicates traditional notions of the visual arts. A visual AR artist trades in what we might call invisible visualities. In this essay, I consider the questions why does AR art matter as a cultural form of expression? and what does AR art contribute to contemporary technoliterary theoretical discourse? by putting several recent AR artworks into dialogue with some of today’s most important literary-media theorists.