Artists

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s first virtual reality work produced by Acute Art, The Eternal Wave, 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, Cao Fei’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

Koo Jeong A’s first augmented reality project Prerequisites 7 (2019), features a collection of her pen drawings in 2D and 3D, from the artist’s book Nomos Alpha (2018) and her Instagram account. Jeong A’s ephemeral works highlight seemingly unimportant everyday items, which often border on the invisible. Her precise drawings explore the poetics of everyday life […]

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 […]

Exploring the technical developments shaping the world around us and society’s transformation by the internet and advancing technologies, Mark Leckey’s first virtual reality artwork is  produced using point cloud visualisation to create a dark and dreamlike experience. Working in VR, Leckey fosters a deeper experiential connection with the audience, as the viewer delves into the memories, both real and fabricated, of […]

Based on his 2012 work Creation (Megaplex), video installation artist Marco Brambilla’s first virtual reality artwork is set between the birth and death of the universe and all that pop culture created during its existence. Modelled on DNA strands, this universal vortex travels in the form of a comic pullback, with the viewer ultimately witnessing […]