Gorillas in Cowboy Boots, Fish Full of Dynamite—Darren Bader’s AR App is in Beta

About a year after it was supposed to debut at the 58th Venice Biennale, artist Darren Bader’s augmented reality app is finally in private beta testing.
When the Biennale ended its six-month run in November, the website for the program, whose title is Mendes Mundi, still stated, “Is this an art prank? Not at all. The app is just delayed.”
The original programming team “wasn’t able to deliver and strung us along for way too long,” said Bader. “We ran out