This multi-year initiative with the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA) uses augmented reality to explore monuments and murals, representation, and history. Monumental Perspectives brings together artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region. In consultation with community leaders and historians, the second cohort of artists, Judy Baca, Sandra de la Loza, and Kang Seung Lee, examined changing landscapes and memory as a way to connect past and present through augmented reality. Visitors can experience the augmented reality monuments at site-specific locations across Los Angeles including Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park, Algin Sutton Recreation Center, and The Great Wall of Los Angeles. The monuments can also be experienced by anyone around the world, wherever they are on Snapchat by searching in Lens Explorer and by scanning the Snapcodes on LACMA's website. Learn more about how to experience the virtual monuments and see last year's Monumental Perspectives collection here. In fall 2023, the project will showcase its final collection.

Image credit: Judith F. Baca, The River Once Ran, 2022, in collaboration with LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, © Judith F. Baca, image courtesy of Snap Inc. Judith F. Baca ©1983, The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Courtesy of the SPARC Archives sparcinla.org