AAR Ensemble: Augmenting Architectural Realities Ensemble investigates the co-composition of the urban imaginary by its inhabitants—reflecting, reimagining, and enacting possible future realities in the landscape. Using projection mapping and experiential spatial projections at multiple spatio-temporal scales combined with digital fabrication and sculpture, AAR Ensemble envisions alternate compositions of bodies, environments, and power. Their process and practice often leverages guerilla projection to challenge the presumed fixed-ness of material and temporal structures. AAR Ensemble is comprised of Fidelia Lam and Triton Mobley, both currently located in Los Angeles, California.
Fidelia Lam is a Canadian media artist and scholar experimenting across mediums to synthesize theoretical research with creative practice. Her work attends to processes of becoming and relating found in subcultural spaces and the compositions of movement, body, and landscape. She has exhibited, presented, and performed work across the U.S. and Canada, Asia, and Europe. She is currently an Annenberg Fellow and Diversity, Inclusion, and Access Fellow at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Triton Mobley is a new media artist, educator, and scholar. His new media installations have been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, Art Miami, and he has staged guerilla art interventions in Boston, New York, Providence, and across Japan. He holds an MFA in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently an Annenberg Fellow and doctoral candidate in Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California, where his research and practice studies the socio-economic disparities of emergent technologies faced by marginalized communities as a result of the digital delay. His research has been presented at the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities’ Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black conference in Maryland, as well as the Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art at City University of Hong Kong.