An augmented reality artwork commissioned by Inscription Journal for the cover of its fourth issue, "Touch". The artwork is triggered when pointing the Spark AR app on a phone, at the front and back covers of the journal. The content and concept was created by Dr Katarina Ranković and the programming and realisation was done by Dr Ian Truelove (Leeds Beckett University).

When Inscription Journal approached Katarina with the idea to animate the cover of this issue (which featured "A Poet's Question By Frank O'Hara," a citational artwork by Natalie Czech) with a superimposed AR effect, it struck her that all one needed to do was listen to the tumultuous clamour already taking place there. Tuning in, you could slowly begin to hear the complaints, accusations, hopes, whispers, declarations and promises emerge like apparitions from the power struggle on the page, from the resentful grumbling of Bridget Riley’s Painting-made-background, to the opportunistic hand-rubbing of Barcode, or the ideological mantra of the Obnoxious Yellow Pencil Chorus.

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