To the Moon

Art & Photography

To the Moon

Art Basel 2019

March 29–31, 2019

Reserve the VR experience at Art Basel in Hong Kong

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HTC VIVE Arts returns as the official VR Partner of Art Basel Hong Kong in 2019, presenting the Asia Premiere of To the Moon, a new virtual reality artwork by the iconic avant-garde American artist Laurie Anderson and new media Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang.

For over 20 years, Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang have collaborated on a wide range of multimedia projects. To the Moon is one of their most ambitious works to date. Inspired by Laurie Anderson’s experience as the first artist in residence at NASA, the two artists developed this work to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in 2018. This 15-minute immersive installation transports viewers onto the surface of the moon, where they experience an otherworldly journey in low gravity through virtual reality. The work ultimately attempts to give audiences a new perspective from this vantage point in outer space.

Previously, the two artists were awarded “Best VR Experience” at the Venice Film Festival in 2017 for their installation La Camera Insabbiata. For the first time in Asia, after its debut at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2018, members of the public will be able to experience To the Moon in a one-of-a-kind integrated VR installation in Hong Kong, shown in the HTC VIVE Lounge on level 3 Concourse of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, March 29–31.

Artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster on Exploring Consciousness through VR

Ralph Rugoff, Artistic Director of the 58th Venice Biennale talks to artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster about virtual reality experience "Endodrome"

At the Beach with the Monk

A virtual reality experience at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie inspired by the artist Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is a virtual reality experience that brings to life the story of the Mona Lisa, the iconic masterpiece by artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). It is the first VR experience presented by the Louvre and on display in the museum’s seminal retrospective exhibition, which commemorates the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death in France, on view in the Hall Napoléon from October 24, 2019 to February 24, 2020.

La Géode VR

In December 2016, we collaborated partnered with Paris’s Museum of Science and Industryies to launch La Géode VR—a series of immersive experiences set across three levels, that explore the possibilities of virtual reality. Each is set inside La Géode, a world-renowned geodesic dome theatre offering spectacular cinematic experiences, which attracts approximately 4 million visitors each year.

Invisible Landscapes (Act III)

Invisible Landscapes: Imagination (Act III) presents projects by four architectural practices. From immersive installations to film and virtual-reality experiences, the third act of Invisible Landscapes explores how the virtual might transform the physical space and vice versa in architecture design. All question how we might interact with and look at the world around us, both now and in the near future.

Water Bodies

MeshMinds 2.0: ArtxTechforGood, a new breed of immersive, interactive experiences crafted by next-generation artists who are tackling the world’s most vexing environmental challenges. Merging technology and the arts, this exhibition puts viewers right in the middle of the action—whether stepping through a virtual portal to clean up a sullied ocean, or imagining the vastness of our future cities in augmented reality.

We Live in an Ocean of Air

London-based collective Marshmallow Laser Feast has proven themselves as one of the leading virtual reality creators in the world with groundbreaking works such as In the Eyes of the Animal (exhibited globally at leading festivals, 2016 Wired Innovation Award for “Innovation in Experience Design”) and Treehugger Wawona (2017 Tribeca Storyscapes Award). Their latest and most ambitious installation, We live in an Ocean of Air, debuted at London’s Saatchi Gallery in December 2018. With overwhelming responses from the audience, the exhibition has now been extended to May 2019.

Endodrome

Endodrome is the first virtual reality artwork by pioneering artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Officially invited to the main exhibition of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia “May You Live in Interesting Times” curated by Ralph Rugoff, this VR environment is on view at the Arsenale from May 11 to November 24, 2019. This year’s Biennale features numerous artworks made using digital technologies, demonstrating growing recognition of works made using VR, AR, AI and other digital mediums.