Couchsurf_Leipzig

TGDouroupi

About this app

Couchsurfing_Athens and Couchsurfing_Leipzig are a pair of a free augmented reality applications. Each app provides an immersive environment and allows the viewer to see how the other location would look like, if we don't take action to reverse the catastrophe.
The marker image is part of a physical art exhibition and can also be viewed online at: https://deepworldvesta.wixsite.com/glass/billboards

Our world faces climate change, disaster, pandemics, wars, while we remain apathetic and mere spectators of the grotesque global spectacle.
Couchsurfing shows pictures from an imagined dystopic future.
The DIALOG billboard, located at the IDEAL art space in Leipzig, together with a second billboard located in Athens is an exhibition project. Through the simultaneous use of the two walls, a relationship is established between the two locations. the billboards in Athens and Leipzig create a portal, a conduit between the two cities, to remind us that our fates are interconnected.