Sapponckanikan (Tobacco Field)

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AR at the Whitney Museum

Sapponckanikan (Tobacco Field), created in 2019 by Alan Michelson with Steven Fragale, is a site-specific augmented reality app for the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art that places viewers in a circle of tobacco plants. Four hundred years ago, when the Dutch arrived in what is now Manhattan, there was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (tobacco field), near what is currently the foot of Gansevoort Street close to the Museum. Sapponckanikan (Tobacco Field) recalls and honors the Lenape and their tobacco field by surrounding users of the app with a recreation of…

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