1 Mai - 31 Jul 2025

Elizabeth Littlejohn ( Canada )

Elizabeth Littlejohn is a professor of communications and fine arts from Toronto, Canada. An augmented-reality artist, visual technologies researcher, and documentary filmmaker, Elizabeth believes that places for creative culture should be protected. As a result, she is creating a series of augmented reality Protect-O-Mobiles to hover over threatened cultural sites in Berlin and Toronto, thus, to memorialize their loss. Protect-o-Mobiles are intended to be humorous, guardian spaceships, informational in nature, which are designed to build an experience in the real world to illustrate this rapid loss of cultural heritage in Berlin and Toronto. She has created two Berlin Protect-o-mobiles so far, one to fight for housing rights in Kottbusser Tor ­– the Kottimobile – and one to protest the razing of historic night clubs in Berlin through the expansion of the A100 highway – the Berlinmobile. These series of Protect-O-Mobiles will be accessible through Google Maps as part of a transnational cultural campaign.