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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, […]

“Only when we change ourselves can we change others. Water matters.” Marina Abramović Marina Abramović will deliver a performance lecture at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm on 9 December 2019. Abramović is launching an app called Rising, letting users make active choices to take better care of the environment daily actions. The app is […]

The artist Anish Kapoor discusses his first virtual reality work Into Yourself, Fall — an immersive journey into the unknown. ‘One of the things I’m concerned with is the relationship between materiality and non-materiality,’ says artist Anish Kapoor, discussing Into Yourself, Fall — his first virtual reality work, produced in collaboration with Acute Art, which […]

The celebrated performance artist reveals the process behind Rising, an interactive game that lets players to decide whether she, and the planet, survive “When I was introduced to virtual reality, I understood the possibilities were enormous,” explains Marina Abramović. Renowned for her remarkable feats of physical endurance, the artist recognised the enormous potential of translating […]

The artist, who is renowned world-wide for his Inflatables explains the extraordinary process of creating a virtual world populated by a glimmering dancer “There are many things that excite me about VR,” says Jeff Koons, discussing Phryne – a new virtual reality work produced in collaboration with Acute Art, which translates one of his iconic […]

The artist Olafur Eliasson goes behind the scenes of Rainbow — a virtual reality work that harnesses light and water to create glimmering colour    ‘You don’t see light unless it falls on something,’ muses Olafur Eliasson, who has become renowned for creating art that harnesses elemental materials including light, water and air. The focus […]