Hartwick Prof Strives To Make Art More Inclusive through AR
By TERESA WINCHESTER
ONEONTA
At age 8, Joe Von Stengel, professor of art and design at Hartwick College, was a self-described “Atari kid.” Now 52, he is pushing the boundaries of electronics and computer graphics with his pursuit and promotion of augmented reality, or AR.
Defined formally, AR is “an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device, such as a smartphone camera.”
Von Stengel defines it more succinctly.