101 Opportunity Abstractions represents a series of AR iPad screen captures taken in the interior of the disassembling AR Mars rover from my 2014 installation, Opportunity Rover Too. The rover functions as a Duchampian generator of abstract imagery, updating some of the Dadaist notions of mechanical vision to an era of computer-generated aesthetics and unlimited versionhood. These works also evidence an encounter with three-dimensional virtual space and the moments opportunistically captured.

Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and a founding member of the Manifest.AR international collective who have pioneered works in augmented reality since 2010.

Pappenheimer’s work has been shown at Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, Los Angeles; San Francisco MOMA; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles; the ICA, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New Museum in New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington; FILE, Sao Paulo, BR; and Turbulance.org. The artist’s works have been featured in Christiane Paulʼs historical editions of “Digital Art,” Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic.org, WIRED, EL PAIS, Madrid, and Liberation, Paris. He teaches new media at Pace University, New York.