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:

The Curator’s Tour

As part of Unreal City Live, the Acute Art festival curator Daniel Birnbaum takes us on a tour of #UnrealCity – a mile of digital artworks by Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, Tomás Saraceno, Bjarne Melgaard, KAWS, and more.

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 and technology to create alternative realities and fictional cities. 

Tomás Saraceno and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Web of Life: for a real augmented reality

Artist Tomás Saraceno joins curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to talk about the poetry and architecture of spiders with a special studio tour of Saraceno’s spider collection.

Bjarne Melgaard: Is this the Real Life?

Artist Bjarne Melgaard joins Dazed’s Thomas Gorton to discuss virtual reality, memory, the mind, psychedelic drugs and social media.