Category: Talks & Events
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Unreal City Live
To celebrate Unreal City, London’s biggest public festival of AR art, Acute Art and Dazed Media invited you to Unreal City Live on Tuesday 15th December 2020. Missed them live? Catch up below: Cao Fei on obscuring the boundaries between the real and the virtual AnOther Magazine editor Sophie Bew speaks to the artist Cao Fei, exploring using art […]
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Watch Unreal City – London’s biggest AR exhibition in partnership with Dazed Media
Acute Art and Dazed Media have joined forces to present Unreal City, London’s biggest public festival of AR art which features 36 sculptures arranged as a walking tour along the River Thames. The sculptures are arranged across 24 sites between Waterloo Bridge and Millennium Bridge on the Southbank by leading artists from all over the world including Nina Chanel Abney, Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, Alicja Kwade, […]
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Acute Art at Berlin Art Week
For this year’s Berlin Art Week, Acute Art are delighted to present multiple projects: Nina Chanel Abney at Berghain Visitors to Berghain, the notorious Berlin nightclub turned exhibition space, will discover Nina Chanel Abney’s Imaginary Friend floating outside the entrance. Having officially launched earlier in the summer, visitors will have the opportunity to view this monumental AR work by downloading […]
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Doug Aitken on Acute Live
Join us this Thursday, 23rd July 12pm (EST/New York) / 5pm (BST/London), for a live Instagram conversation between artist Doug Aitken and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum. Click on the stories icon on the Acute Art Instagram profile to join. Using the landscape around him as both subject and medium, Doug Aitken creates works that illuminate how […]
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Georges Adéagbo on Acute Art Live
We are thrilled to announce our next Acute Art Live with sculptor Georges Adéagbo and artistic director Daniel Birnbaum. Watch ‘Afro-European Assemblage’ live on instagram this Thursday 18 June at 2pm (NY/EST) or 7pm (UK/BST). Join by clicking the stories icon on the Acute Art profile. Adéagbo, creates site-specific installations where news cuttings, posters, books, postcards, […]
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Instagram Live with Akram Zaatari
Tune in on tomorrow (Tuesday 9 June) for a conversation between artist Akram Zaatari and Daniel Birnbaum. ‘A Conversation’ will be live on Instagram at 12PM (EST/New York) / 5PM (BST/London) over on the @acuteart_ page. In photography, film, video, and installation, Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari (Lebanese, born 1966) has built a complex body of […]
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Tomás Saraceno on Acute Art Live
Join artist Tomás Saraceno and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram this Saturday 24 May. Tune in to watch The Cosmic Webs at 12PM (EST) / 5PM (BST) over on the @acuteart_ instagram page. Tomás Saraceno is best known for incorporating physics, engineering, aeronautics, arachnology into his interactive and evolving artistic structures. His past projects include the Metropolitan […]
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Join KAWS and Daniel Birnbaum for A Conversation on Instagram Live
Join Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on instagram on Wednesday 6 May at 2pm (EST/US time) and 7pm (BST/UK time). KAWS is recognized globally as one of the most influential artists working today. Throughout his career, the New York artist has created everything from murals and paintings to large-scale sculptures for […]
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Acute Art Live with Matthew Slotover
Tune in on Monday 4 May at 6pm (BST/UK time) and join Frieze founder Matthew Slotover and Artistic Director of Acute Art, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram. Matthew Slotover OBE, co-founded Frieze, a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture, in 1991 along with Amanda Sharp and Tom Gidley. In 2003, Slotover and Sharp established […]
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Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Johnny Golding and John Slyce
Join us at 7pm on 24 April at The Store X, 180 The Strand, for an after hours viewing of Lunatick, and a conversation between Royal College of Art Professor Johnny Golding, author John Slyce and Director of Acute Art, Daniel Birnbaum. Doors will open from 6pm and viewings will take place before and after the talk until […]
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Acute Art presents Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Michelle Kuo
Join us for a lecture on art and technology delivered by curator Michelle Kuo, followed by a conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, in celebration of their recent publication More Than Real: Art in the Digital Age. Michelle Kuo, former editor-in-chief of Artforum, stepped down last year to become the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture […]
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Acute Art presents Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Mark Leckey
Daniel Birnbaum is joined by Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey for a conversation on lending enchantment to digital materials and other stories. Since the late 1990’s, Mark Leckey’s sculpture, sound, film and performance practice has addressed the radical effect of technology on popular culture. He returns frequently to the themes of desire and transformation, […]