Location-Based | Site Specific | Immersive | Interactive | Augmented Reality | Media Sculptures
Monuments of Protest: Artivism in the Public Space
“Protect__Workers,Jobs,Wages,Rights,+ Freedom” –
Social Security Administration Building
3663 SW 8th St, Miami ,FL 33135
An iteration is being deployed at the location of the “Torch of Friendship” for the May 3rd Rally (10am-.1pm)
This AR intervention transforms public space into a canvas for digital resistance. Featuring a fleet of, location-based, floating protest signs with the animated, and changing message “PROTECT…(Workers,Jobs,Wages,Rights, +Freedom)”, this installation at the Social Security Administration Building reimagines protest in the digital age. Through geo-spatial AR and cinematic techniques, the work creates invisible, persistent monuments of protest, challenging traditional boundaries of activism. It speaks to the ongoing fight for creative and environmental justice, turning the city into a studio and the network into a megaphone for resistance.
“I deployed fleets of geo-location-based AR protest signs that read “PROTECT…(Workers,Jobs,Wages,Rights, +Freedom)”—floating monuments of digital resistance, turning the city into my studio and protest into a persistent media spectacle .” — [dNASAb]
Monuments of Protest: Artivism in the Public Space
“People Before Profits” –
Torch of Friendship & Surrounding Blocks, Downtown Miami
301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Spanning several city blocks around Miami’s iconic Torch of Friendship, People Before Profits transforms the skyline into a rotating monument of resistance and care. A squad of hovering pyramids built from animated, color-shifting sentence fragments—each repeating the phrase “People Before Profits”—shapes and reshapes itself in space, casting a digital shadow over the site of protest.
These living texts pulse with meaning. They don’t shout—they build. Words scaffold together to form structure and signal, floating in persistent augmented reality, accompanied by the unmistakable voice of Bernie Sanders addressing the broken priorities of our nation.
This isn’t about division. It’s about dignity. It asks: What does a just society look like? What would it mean to value people over corporate gain—not as a slogan, but as policy, as structure, as public truth?
By reimagining protest through cinematic AR, this work turns city space into a a canvas for empathy and justice and the air above into typographical architecture. It challenges viewers to see protest not only as disruption, but as design.
“These aren’t just words. They are structures of resistance. They’re rotating realities—monuments built from meaning. Designed to hover above the crowd, Illuminating a question too big to ignore.” — [dNASAb]
Monuments of Protest: Artivism in the Public Space
“Hands Off The Arts”–
790-848 NW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33127
across the street from the Allapattah galleries
Mindy Solomon, KDR, Volshyn, and Andrew Reed.
This geo-located AR intervention marks a critical cultural flashpoint as “Arts funding —is Slashed. Arts Institutions —are Defunded. Art Communities___being Erased. Artworks__are Censored. and Artists — are Silenced.” “Hands Off The Arts” is a cinematic, location-based protest that unleashes a fleet of animated, floating AR signs as media sculptures, defending the sanctity of artistic freedom and public support for the arts.Set against the industrial textures of Allapattah, it transforms the neighborhood into a living monument for creative resistance.
Using augmented reality as both protest tool and storytelling device, the work addresses federal funding cuts to arts institutions such as the NEA, NPR, PBS, and Art21. It demands that we not only value but protect the cultural infrastructure that shapes a free and expressive society. This immersive monument pulses with urgency—broadcasting the message: “Hands Off The Arts” to all who pass by, turning railroad tracks into soundstages,spectators into participants, and audiences into filmmakers.
“I created this AR experience as a tribute and a warning—these floating protest signs are not ephemeral; they’re persistent markers of dissent against the erosion of public arts support. This is where resistance becomes visual, viral, and location-aware.” — [dNASAb]
Hands Off The Arts.
Year after year, the creative spirit is under siege.
Arts funding — Slashed. Arts Institutions — Defunded. Art Communities___ Erased. Artworks__Censored. Artists — Silenced.
This isn’t negligence. It’s strategy.
A slow dismantling of culture by those who fear its power.
The National Endowment for the Arts. National Public Radio (NPR), and The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), are ALL under threat. ART 21, Eyebeam, Harvetworks, and
Local Miami Arts groups such as the MUD Foundation, Dimensions Variable gallery, and O’Cinema Theater, have also lost much needed funding this year.
These institutions are vital to the cultural and creative fabric of this country.
They nurture imagination and empower voices while preserving the stories that shape us.
Without them, creativity is stifled and the soul of a nation begins to fade.
This work — this digital protest — is more than art.
It’s a public media sculpture. A cinematic uprising.
An immersive, Augmented Reality installation using disruptive tools
to build new stories and amplify acts of resistance.
While most artists, institutions and galleries remain silent —
I WILL NOT. I CAN NOT.
This is a demand.A call to action.
Please Join me.
Use this Augmented Reality artwork as your stage — a platform for protest and creativity.
Utilizing these digital assets as props__Film your message. Speak your truth.
Create your own cinematic manifesto in defense of the arts.Then Post, Hashtag, and Distribute the statement collectively.
Art is not a luxury.
Art is not decoration.
It is declaration. That Declaration is “Hands Off The Arts”!
You can try to erase us —
but you cannot silence what we amplify.
Hands Off The Arts.
[dNASAb]