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Augmented Reality (AR) Slavery Trails are site-specific AR Sculptures created by Artist Marcus Brown to virtually mark areas where enslaved people were held, sold, and worked in the United States. The interactive Augmented Reality (AR) sculpture series present figures representing enslaved peoples during the chattel slavery period in the United States.

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This is for the Tour guide to show the tour the model and take pictures of model and tourist etc

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The new iPad Pro has the M2 chip, 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display, 11-inch Liquid Retina display, Wi-Fi 6E, 5G, and support for Apple Pencil hover.

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During tour Airdrop or email customers selfies with the AR sculpture. 

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During tour Airdrop or email customers selfies with the AR sculpture. 

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Image ID for AR sculpture. Tour guide has Image that activates the AR model's placement but not the link to the model.

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You can take pictures with the models or sculptures. For now we are looking at the Marie Laveau to be on the sidewalk and picture ready. 

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This is an example of me next to my sculptures for Slavery Trails. The website has example of how the video and picture features will work.

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This is an example of me next to my sculptures for Slavery Trails. The website has example of how the video and picture features will work.

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Augmented Reality (AR) Slavery Trails are site-specific AR Sculptures created by Artist Marcus Brown to virtually mark areas where enslaved people were held, sold, and worked in the United States. The interactive Augmented Reality (AR) sculpture series present figures representing enslaved peoples during the chattel slavery period in the United States. The Marcus Brown slave artist No. series is meant to fund the projects development. This project is self-funded by the artist Marcus Brown.

How to Experience the AR Slavery Trails ?

1. Download the Ar Adobe Aero App on your smart device using the following address:

2. You do not need to sign up or sign in. The app just needs to be on your device/phone/tablet.

3. Open your camera on your smartphone and scan the QR code labeled AR Slavery Trails.

4. Once the Augmented Reality (AR) Slavery Trails Project loads, "anchor" it to the plaque.

5. Tap the AR enslaved people to activate the music and animations connected to the project.

The first series of sculptures are self-portraits designed to present myself as a product. As a multimedia artist and fabricator who works many types of traditional crafts. I chose to create physical iron objects to in my performances and also to gain a better understanding of the brutality experience by the enslaved. I forged an iron collars using steel and I played my Alto-Saxophone to create sound samples. These samples are played by tapping my AR self-portraits. In many instances the enslaved blacksmiths were and instructed to make irons for other enslaved people. Also, if an enslaved person was able to provide musical entertainment they were also instructed to perform.

The Marcus Brown slave artist No. series are custom AR sculptures and digital prints. Each of these are a custom sound interactive AR sculpture model and a 16" x 16" digital archival print made of 100% recycled premium grade aluminum available for sale for the price of an enslaved person during the 1840-1845 time period. These sound interactive AR sculptures are self portraits just like the ones found at the Esplanade Ave & Chartres St.New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade historical marker in New Orleans. The Marcus Brown slave artist No. series pricing is based on data presented in the paper titled Measuring Slavery in 2020 Dollars by Samuel H. Williamson and Louis P. Cain.

I created these to help people visualize figuratively the concept of human beings as commodities. In the New Orleans French Quarter it is hard to find a structure that has not been touched or built by enslaved hands. America needs the ghosts of slavery to remind us of how our nation was really built. The idea behind the infusion of new age technology with history and art is to get the attention of today's audiences who may not know the truth or who may be uncomfortable with it. America did not pull itself up by its bootstraps. It was built on stolen land with enslaved labor. Just as there are people living today who have benefitted and inherited the spoils of free labor, descendants of those laborers are still marginalized, and their contributions diminished. The Augmented Reality (AR) Slavery Trails are a way of connecting the public to the lost stories of the enslaved.

Passage is a musically interactive mixed reality sculpture trail based on slave ships and enslaved people. The artwork titled Passage or Middle Passage is a geotagged musically interactive augmented reality (AR) sculpture installation series based on slave ships and enslaved peoples. The title Passage or Middle Passage refers to the section of the historical triangular trade route between Europe, Africa and the Americas. It allowed for the forced transport of African slaves from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Most of the African slaves brought to the Americas at that time were transported through this route on ships in extremely dehumanizing conditions. One of the main ports used for slave trade was in New Orleans. Brown designed the series to educate the public about the Middle Passage and the treatment of the enslaved. Music and singing was one element which could not be controlled by the captors. The artwork focuses on taking the public through the tightly packed slave deck areas using Augmented reality (AR) as well as his own custom proximity based musical interactive technology to tell a story of the Middle Passage.

Thank you Dr. Marcus Rediker for your encouragement and being an advisor on these projects Ship Drum (film), Machine Noire, AR Slavery Trails , and

The MeasuringWorth Foundation

Measuring Slavery in 2020 Dollars* by Samuel H. Williamson Miami University MeasuringWorth sam@mswth.org and Louis P. Cain Loyola University Chicago Northwestern University lcain@northwestern.edu

New Orleans and the Domestic Slave TradeTHE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE

Location: Esplanade Ave & Chartres St New Orleans, LA 70116

(front side) In 1808, the US Congress abolished the international slave trade, contributing to a significant increase in the domestic slave trade, or the trafficking of human beings within the boundaries of the United States. During the fifty-seven years that followed, an estimated 2 million men, women, and children were separated from families and forcibly moved by slave traders and owners. The largest numbers were brought from the Upper South to the Lower South via overland and water routes. New Orleans was the center of this trade, resulting in more than fifty documented sites. More enslaved people were sold here from slave pens, public squares, government buildings, church properties, city taverns, private residences, auction houses, and even ballrooms of luxury hotels than anywhere else in the US.

Within a one-block radius of this marker were the New Orleans offices, showrooms, and slave pens of over a dozen slave trading firms, including Franklin, Armfield, and Ballard, Hope New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade Marker (<i>back side</i>) image. Click for full size. Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 11, 2018 2. New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade Marker (back side) Hull Slatter, John Hagan, Joseph Bruin, and others. Their networks, which undergirded the antebellum economy, stretched from Norfolk, Baltimore, Louisville, and Memphis to New Orleans, Natchez, Galveston, Pensacola, and beyond. Learn more

Want to get to know more slave trade sites in New Orleans?

NEW ORLEANS SLAVE TRADE MARKER TOUR

https://www.slavevoyages.org/

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Augmented Reality (AR) Slavery Trails are site-specific AR Sculptures created by Artist Marcus Brown to virtually mark areas where enslaved people were held, sold, and worked in the United States. The interactive Augmented Reality (AR) sculpture series present figures representing enslaved peoples during the chattel slavery period in the United States.

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Top Choice for clothing and Hair wrap. This will look the best to me. I would like to have her look  beautiful and powerful. 

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Top Choice for clothing and Hair wrap. This will look the best to me. I would like to have her look  beautiful and powerful. 

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I started over because I thought the face needed to be less video game looking. I like this geometry in this model a lot better

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In living room

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In living room 10132022

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Edits for Marcus Arms in front and eyes