Artists

(2020) | Augmented Reality For 2020, Bjarne Melgaard’s new AR project uses characters and motifs from his wider oeuvre, which reference a multitude of current and historical affairs; from the colonisation of The Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, to the international influence of Big Tech, as well as the recent removal of […]

AR-BEIT (2020) | Augmented Reality In the Autumn 2020, Acute Art produced AR-BEIT, a new augmented reality project in collaboration with Alicja Kwade.  Free to download via the Acute Art app, this series consists of four individual sculptures, in reference to works from the artist’s oeuvre, developed within this new medium. Unlike their physical counterparts, […]

The Eternal Wave AR (2020) | Augmented Reality After premiering Cao Fei’s first virtual realty work, The Eternal Wave at The Serpentine Galleries, Acute Art has collaborated with the artist on an augmented reality version of the kitchen space in which The Eternal Wave begins. Continuing the artist’s exploration of virtual possibilities, this new iteration of the project […]

The Four Temperaments AR (2020) | Augmented Reality In The Four Temperaments AR, Cate Blanchett performs four sets of distinct character types divided according to a personality classification first defined by the Greek philosopher, Galen. He named the four “Temperaments” Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic. In the work, the characters performed by Blanchett each appear […]

Mendes Mundi: Mends of Scott Friendes | Augmented Reality Mendes Mundi is Darren Bader’s ongoing AR project. In the artist’s words “It’s origins are particular, but just as easily forgotten.” M. Mundi brings together bestiary, flea market capitalism, senseless census, and umpteenth generation Surrealism. “It’s also a Mark di Suvero study,” says Bader. The AR “denizens” […]

Prerequisites 7 (2019) | Augmented Reality Prerequisites 7, Koo Jeong A’s first AR project, includes five animated drawings that can be placed on the wall, from a curious crouching frog to a flying woman, whose dress billows in the wind, in addition to the floating, translucent ice cube, density.  Each individual work started with pen drawings […]

The London Mastaba AR (Hyde Park) (2020) | Augmented Reality Visitors to Hyde Park can virtually summon one of the best loved public artworks of recent years, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba, on their smartphones. The launch of The London Mastaba AR (Hyde Park) (2020) brings this iconic sculpture back to the Serpentine via the […]

Omni (2019) | Virtual Reality 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 […]