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Digital twist at Gateway Gallery

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Art meets technology as Gateway Gallery celebrates the second year of its SiningSaysay: Philippine History in Art exhibit by launching a digital interface that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to recount Philippine history and make it more interesting to an increasingly digital-savvy generation.

Tomorrow, the gallery will launch SiningLakbay: Philippine History in Augmented Reality in connection with its long-term exhibit that depicts prehistoric Philippines up to the time of President Benigno Aquino III in 30 large history paintings by the talented artists of the UP College of Fine Arts.

The exhibit aims to be a platform for gallery guests to have a more enriched experience of SiningSaysay, a collaborative project between the University of the Philippines and the Araneta Center. It also aims to create awareness of history among the youth by appealing to their interest in digital technology.

Ten paintings mounted at ‘SiningLakbay’ exhibit will ‘come to life’ on mobile devices to recount Philippine history through videos and narration 

By downloading a free app (on iOS and Android), visitors will be able to see 10 select paintings “come to life” on their Wifi-enabled digital device. Using the app, gallery visitors can point their device to the key paintings to watch the video and hear the narration on chapters of Philippine history. The videos are accurate historical accounts of events depicted in the paintings.

The SiningLakbay project is a product of careful and creative implementation among the artists, filmmakers, historians, curators, editors and technology providers.

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Gateway Gallery opened on Nov. 21, 2014. The SiningSaysay exhibit celebrates its second year anniversary in the gallery on Feb. 18. The SiningLakbay project will be launched in time for the anniversary of the People Power Revolution on Feb. 25, and with key history players and public personalities in attendance.

Located on the 5th level of the Gateway Tower at the Araneta Center, Gateway Gallery is free to the public and is open daily, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is supported and managed by the J. Amado Araneta Foundation, the CSR arm of the Araneta Group.

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