Pulsar Bodies represents live screen capture documentation of a series of GPS located sculptural augmented reality objects. The site of these appearances is at an anonymous location in western Massachusetts. The project name refers to star clusters known to emit pulsing light and radiation. Here they form body shaped micro galaxies composed of common Internet GIF stars. A sequence of recordings show they are situated in and around a rustic domestic dwelling during the evening and then late into the night. Though the work was created and installed in 2015 of the video has not been publicly shown. The start configurations remain at these locations to this day and for the foreseeable future.

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.