Lancaster, CA. September 15, 2023—The City of Lancaster and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) are pleased to present Lifelines, an augmented reality (AR) installation by artist Nancy Baker Cahill.

Accessible to the public via Baker Cahill’s free 4th Wall AR app, Lifelines is a work of land art geolocated in the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve (PDWP), a protected 130 acres of pristine desert woodland located in California’s Antelope Valley. This immersive, cutting-edge installation will be unveiled on Friday, October 6 at 4:30 p.m. at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve.

Reflecting on the diverse flora and fauna of the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve, Lifelines appears as three towering Joshua trees, enveloped in a ghostly murmuration of birds. Rendered in AR, the installation embraces new modes of perception and allows the work to reside in the fragile natural landscape unobtrusively. Ephemeral and grand visuals are accompanied by an elegiac melody, including an arrangement of songs from five native bird species, ambient desert sounds, and breathing. These auditory and visual components blend together to reflect on the ecosystem in which Lifelines inhabit.

About the Lancaster Museum of Art and History

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is dedicated to strengthening awareness, enhancing accessibility, and igniting the appreciation of art, history, and culture in the Antelope Valley through dynamic exhibitions, innovative educational programs, creative community engagement, and a vibrant collection that celebrates the richness of the region. To schedule your next free visit or for more information, please visit www.lancastermoah.org. The Western Hotel Museum is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Private tours are available by appointment. To schedule a tour, contact the Lancaster Museum of Art and History.

About Nancy Baker Cahill

Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting the climate crisis, civics, and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression.

Her geolocated AR installations have been exhibited globally and have earned her profiles in the New York Times, Frieze Magazine, and The Art Newspaper, among other publications, and she was included in ARTnews’ list of 2021 'Deciders'. Her work has been exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, and her solo exhibition ‘Slipstream: Table of Contents’ was recently acquired by LACMA. In 2023, she will have her first solo mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art which will travel through 2025. Her immersive film SEEK will premiere as the first art experience at COSM in Los Angeles in 2024. In the fall of 2023, Baker Cahill will present a new video and AR commission at The Whitney Museum of American Art, to be acquired into the collection.

Baker Cahill is an artist scholar alumnus of the Berggruen Institute, a 2021 resident at Oxy Arts’ ‘Encoding Futures’ focused on AR monuments, and a TEDx speaker. In 2021, she was awarded the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor and received the C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient and was the January 2023 Gazelli.O Resident Artist at Gazelli Art House in London.

About the City of Lancaster, CA

Lancaster is a diverse community of nearly 170,000, leading the future through science, technology, art, culture, and collaboration. Home to astronauts, rocket scientists, families, and innovative businesses large and small, we are leading the USA with innovation. Combined with spectacular landscapes and clean air, Lancaster has the confidence, expertise, spirit, and imagination to transform tomorrow. We are: Creating a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cityoflancasterca.gov.

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