Artists

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s first virtual reality work, produced by Acute Art, is entitled The Eternal Wave. This work follows the artist’s previous immersive digital works such as RMB City (2007) created and executed in the online 3D virtual world, Second Life. An ongoing exploration of virtuality, reality and the perception of self in relation to technology, […]

Born in China to a poet father who was denounced during the Anti-Rightist movement, Ai has experienced displacement from an early age, when his family was sent to a labour camp and were exiled for 16 years. In the early 1980s, Ai relocated to the United States where he studied art, living undocumented in New […]

Bjarne Melgaard’s virtual reality artwork, My Trip (2019) takes the viewer on a journey to the farthest reaches of the dark web. Melgaard compares the experience to taking Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a naturally occurring drug, which is produced by a gland in the brain. DMT is considered the strongest hallucinogenic chemical substance and is found in […]

Evoking fables and fairy tales first encountered in childhood, Djurberg & Berg’s second virtual reality work, produced by Acute Art, explores the outcome of what happens when faced with the ultimate choice. Confronting the dichotomy of the light side (good) or the dark side (evil), the viewer gets to choose their own path. But viewer […]

Anish Kapoor’s first virtual reality work, Into Yourself, Fall (2018), takes users on a journey through the human body, experiencing the sensation of falling into yourself via the immersive headset. Kapoor’s work seeks to simulate vertigo as a descent inside the human body, depicting a labyrinth of the inner workings of the self. Starting the […]

Produced in collaboration with Acute Art, this immersive work consists of a gridded architecture approximately 36 feet in height, in which massive spheres rotate like planets in orbit. Alicia Kwade considers the structure as a possible multiverse in which each quadrant represents a parallel world within a mathematical, human-made linear system. Kwade’s AR sculpture presents the first immaterial development […]

Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan’s first virtual reality collaboration, Lunatick (2019), uses data collected by NASA to map a real and interactive journey, leaving Earth to pass through atmosphere, stratosphere, the asteroid belt, and into outer space. This immersive experience treats the body as a vessel, free from gravity, in order to bring the […]

Exploring the poetics of everyday life in humorous ways, Koo Jeong A’s first augmented reality project features works from the artist’s book Nomos Alpha (2018) and her Instagram account. A collection of pen drawings rendered in 2D and 3D, Jeong A’s ephemeral works highlight seemingly unimportant everyday items, which often border on the invisible. Her drawing series Prerequisites […]