Augmented illusionism. The influence of optical illusions through artworks with augmented reality

The regular studies on optical illusions through artistic practice usually focus on illusionist painting, placing its conceptualization and methodology within the framework of the pictorial tradition. However, few investigations have dealt with the phenomena of ambiguity, distortion, wrong motion perception, or color in artistic pieces created through the use of augmented reality. This offers a new field of study through which to explore optical illusions, hereby considered erroneous and unconscious perceptions of the actual physical characteristics of an image or object, through the hybridization of real and virtual elements. For this, an investigation of optical illusions is carried out through the work of various artists who use augmented reality technology to generate their artistic pieces. At the same time, the results of an experiment are shown, in which 20 participants evaluate three artistic prototypes created by the author, in which digital elements are superimposed on backgrounds whose characteristics have discordant relationships, of tension and contradiction between figure and background.