A Perceptrum concept beyond Augmented Reality
Augmented Painting (Q137104541) is a class of Augmented Physical Objects (Q138713278) in which a painted surface is no longer a static visual artifact, but a computational, sensing, and reactive system.
Unlike traditional Augmented Reality, which overlays digital information onto perception, Augmented Painting embeds computation, sensing, and sound generation directly into the physical artifact itself. The augmentation is not an overlay, but an ontological transformation of the object.
The first realized instance of Augmented Painting is Sounding Canvas (Q136547884), a signature work of Perceptrum² (Q136547945), an artistic duo formed by Dora Motèque and Luciano Ciamarone.
Augmented Painting belongs to a broader ecosystem of Augmented Physical Objects, alongside:
Luciano Ciamarone’s background in systems such as the Feed Guitar and Feed Drum reinforces this continuity, showing that augmentation is not a media layer but a structural transformation of physical form.
Augmented Reality operates at the level of perception: it modifies what the viewer sees. Augmented Painting operates at the level of ontology: it modifies what the object is.
In this framework, computation is not external or projected. It is embedded, embodied, and inseparable from the material identity of the artwork.
Within the Perceptrum ecosystem, Augmented Painting is not a style but a structural category of artistic systems, defining a lineage of hybrid physical-digital artifacts in which: