Hiroshima Nagasaki AR App at the United Nations
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Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR: Humanity Imagined in the Post-Nuclear Weapons Era
Mamoru Tsukada, Polite Society, and Paolo Fortin are organizing this fundraiser.
Join Mamoru Tsukada and Polite Society in helping to end the threat of nuclear annihilation as we develop, and present Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Humanity Imagined in the Post-Nuclear Weapons Era
- How do you imagine a world without nuclear weapons?
- What kind of world would it be?
- How do you create cohesion in humanity through the termination of anxiety and fear that nuclear weapons create?
- Why do nuclear weapons prevent us from creating the autonomy of human consciousness and intellect?
- How do you imagine being free from this terror and obtaining global cooperation, and unity?
- Would you like to help play a part in moving forward to a post nuclear world?
What is it?
Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR is a visual, multi-media artwork, and presentation device created through an augmented reality application. The Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR downloadable app inserts viewers into an immersive and interactive environment through their chosen device (cell phone, tablet, etc). The application asserts the victims of the horrific annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and at the same time, manifests the texts and messages of an imagined future in a world without the fear of atomic bombs: the post-nuclear era.
Where & When?
Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
United Nations - New York, NY
27 November to 1 December 2023
Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR will first be distributed, and presented to the public outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This conference will be held from November 27 to December 1st 2023. This important event provides the backdrop to debut Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR as prominent anti-nuclear organizations, peace groups, and activists will attend. The AR app will be dispersed among, and throughout these different groups, and organizations, public, youth, onlookers, and civil society participants.
Why are we doing this?
Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR aims to create cohesion, and change in the human community through the abandonment of patriarchal power. This power presently controls humanity through the manipulation of fear of nuclear warfare under the belief of ‘maintaining order and balance.’ Following the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Twentieth Century it has become apparent that technology can dominate, and annihilate the entire planet.
The project utilizes computer innovation: Augmented Reality, articulating the most catastrophic human-made technology: the atomic bomb, to dissect the gap between the human mind, emotions, and technology. The project confronts the fear of technology by using technology. This in turn expands our imagination, and sentiment to empathize with the victims, work toward creating a world without fear of nuclear weapons, and offers freedom in our future.
It is our believe that our task through the development and presentation of Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR is to reexamine the repetitive conditions between human beings and technologies throughout human history and to create a new hope for the human species on Earth by expanding humanities ingenuities, and empathetic intellect.
By presenting Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR during this important UN conference we will be joining in solidarity with the global peace movement, and circulating an educational, interactive, and creative project with a community that is passionate about nuclear disarmament.
Why we need your help.
Your donation will contribute directly to the development, and creation of the Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR app, as well as its presentation and distribution outside the United Nations in NY during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
In donating, you will be helping us debut this important project, as well as joining a global fight to end to the threat of nuclear weapons.
What will funds be used for?
- Cost of engineering, coding, and development of the Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR app
- Costs for travel and presentation at the UN in New York
Who are we?
Mamoru Tsukada is a photographer, artist, and activist. Born in 1962 in Nagano, he studied photography at the International Centre of Photography in New York and History of Art and Theory at Art Studium/Kinki University, Tokyo. After working as a freelance photographer for Forbes, Time, Business Week and numerous other international publications, Tsukada began to develop his contemporary artistic career in 2000. In 2011, his work was greatly affected by the nuclear power accident in Fukushima. He immediately recognized a struggle, and dynamic between art and radiation, both being strongly related to invisibility and enduring effect on people. Since 2012 Tsukada has been working on the ongoing, multi-discipline, anti-nuclear project titled The Exhausted Sky.
To create and present Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR, Tsukada is working in partnership with the art institute Polite Society (formerly Evans Contemporary), and its director, Paolo Fortin. Assistance has been given by Akira Kawasaki (ICAN - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). We also need your help to create and distribute this important anti-nuclear project.
Polite Society is dedicated to the presentation of creative projects by international contemporary artists. It’s mandate is to offer unique spaces for special projects, and new endeavours for each exhibiting artist, while allowing artists to present projects that transcend the trends of the commercial visual art market. The institute falls just outside of the entrenched public and private gallery sectors. It is privately owned and operated, and runs as a negative profit exhibition space, operating as an amalgamation of artist-run centre, museum, institute, and private foundation.
Our Promise:
To show our gratitude for your donation, we promise to:
- Credit to all non-anonymous supporters on all Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR social media platforms.
- Credit to any supporters who wish to write a text or message about an imagined post-nuclear weapon era - we would love to include it in the Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR
- Updates on the process of engineering Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR
- Final, post-event recap video and photo documentation as well as interviews of the Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR experiences outside the UN headquarters in NY
- Updates on future Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR events, and exhibitions to take place after the UN debut.
- Hiroshima+Nagasaki AR asserts the victims of the horrendous technologically mediated annihilation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while at the same time, it manifests the texts and messages of the imaginary future world without the fear of nuclear annihilation: the post-nuclear era.
- One signed limited edition black and white print from Mamoru Tsukada’s Exhausted Sky series for each donation of $1000.
- One signed limited edition colour print from Mamoru Tsukada’s Exhausted Sky series for each donation of $1400.
Organizer
Paul Fortin
Organizer
Peterborough, ON