Augmented Dreams

There’s a little gray rain cloud hovering above my desk as I write—or at least there is when I pick up my phone to reveal it. Standing back from my chair, holding my iPhone in front of me, I can see, and hear, this tiny cumulus softly misting my battered laptop and pile of books. This is Uncertain Cloud, one component of the 2020 augmented reality (AR) piece WUNDERKAMMER by Olafur Eliasson, and with a swipe of the Acute Art app where it lives, I can add a shimmering rainbow (Marvelou