Free the Love

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is bringing the spirit of the ’60s into the tech age. In conjunction with its new exhibition, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, GS&P joined forces with BAMPFA and Adobe to create Free the Love, an augmented-reality app.

The Free the Love app enables users to release augmented-reality “love balloons” into the skies across the Bay Area, with personal messages of peace, love, and togetherness inside. Using the app, people can write messages and leave their own love balloons throughout San Francisco and beyond. Using their phones’ cameras, users can also search the skies for love balloons released by others.

The app’s design was inspired by many of the pieces of art in the Hippie Modernism exhibit, several of which are featured in the app’s educational “Love Tour.” Developed in partnership with the California Historical Society, the Love Tour highlights historical hippie sites of the Bay Area. Locations on the Love Tour include Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, People’s Park in Berkeley, Haight-Ashbury, the site of the first Earth Day, the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, and the site of the Human Be-In, among others.

Released: February 2017

Tags:

San Francisco, BAMPFA

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is bringing the spirit of the ’60s into the tech age. In conjunction with its new exhibition, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, GS&P joined forces with BAMPFA and Adobe to create Free the Love, an augmented-reality app.

The Free the Love app enables users to release augmented-reality “love balloons” into the skies across the Bay Area, with personal messages of peace, love, and togetherness inside. Using the app, people can write messages and leave their own love balloons throughout San Francisco and beyond. Using their phones’ cameras, users can also search the skies for love balloons released by others.

The app’s design was inspired by many of the pieces of art in the Hippie Modernism exhibit, several of which are featured in the app’s educational “Love Tour.” Developed in partnership with the California Historical Society, the Love Tour highlights historical hippie sites of the Bay Area. Locations on the Love Tour include Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, People’s Park in Berkeley, Haight-Ashbury, the site of the first Earth Day, the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, and the site of the Human Be-In, among others.

Released: February 2017

Tags:

San Francisco, BAMPFA

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is bringing the spirit of the ’60s into the tech age. In conjunction with its new exhibition, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, GS&P joined forces with BAMPFA and Adobe to create Free the Love, an augmented-reality app.

The Free the Love app enables users to release augmented-reality “love balloons” into the skies across the Bay Area, with personal messages of peace, love, and togetherness inside. Using the app, people can write messages and leave their own love balloons throughout San Francisco and beyond. Using their phones’ cameras, users can also search the skies for love balloons released by others.

The app’s design was inspired by many of the pieces of art in the Hippie Modernism exhibit, several of which are featured in the app’s educational “Love Tour.” Developed in partnership with the California Historical Society, the Love Tour highlights historical hippie sites of the Bay Area. Locations on the Love Tour include Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, People’s Park in Berkeley, Haight-Ashbury, the site of the first Earth Day, the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, and the site of the Human Be-In, among others.

Released: February 2017

Tags:

San Francisco, BAMPFA

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is bringing the spirit of the ’60s into the tech age. In conjunction with its new exhibition, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, GS&P joined forces with BAMPFA and Adobe to create Free the Love, an augmented-reality app.

The Free the Love app enables users to release augmented-reality “love balloons” into the skies across the Bay Area, with personal messages of peace, love, and togetherness inside. Using the app, people can write messages and leave their own love balloons throughout San Francisco and beyond. Using their phones’ cameras, users can also search the skies for love balloons released by others.

The app’s design was inspired by many of the pieces of art in the Hippie Modernism exhibit, several of which are featured in the app’s educational “Love Tour.” Developed in partnership with the California Historical Society, the Love Tour highlights historical hippie sites of the Bay Area. Locations on the Love Tour include Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, People’s Park in Berkeley, Haight-Ashbury, the site of the first Earth Day, the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, and the site of the Human Be-In, among others.

Released: February 2017

Tags:

San Francisco, BAMPFA