What will New York’s Time Square look like if climate change remains unchecked? Artist Mel Chin, together with Microsoft, Time Square Arts, No Longer Empty, and Queens Museum, sought to answer this question with Mixed Reality experience Unmoored and Wake. Unmoored shows a submerged Times Square in a future where the ice caps have melted and the oceans continue to rise. You can see this submerged area through a Mixed Reality experience using Microsoft HoloLens or via augmented reality through their mobile phones. Meanwhile, Wake is a sixty-foot animatronic installation you can interact with that “evokes the hull of a 19th century shipwreck crossed with skeletal remains of a marine mammal.”
Chin’s works will be on display at the Broadway Plaza between 46th Street and 47th Street as part of the multi-location Mel Chin: All Over the Place exhibition. You can experience and explore Unmoored using the Microsoft HoloLens until July 13th or use mobile devices until the exhibit’s end on September 5th.