Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live Sessions Three:
Larry Achiampong & David Blandy

Join via Twitch: @serpentineuk
Monday 27 September 2021
6 - 7pm BST

What is the role of the artist within the metaverse? How can they tell stories within increasingly virtual platforms whilst still critiquing relatively new mediums like game engines – what is good virtual art? With new technology comes new production techniques, but also new audience and user expectations that present risks but also opportunities that need to be balanced and responded to within these new user experiences.

Join artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy alongside Serpentine Galleries Head of Arts Technologies Kay Watson, as they discuss creative practice across art, film, poetry, performance and music, and how David and Larry have been merging storytelling within game worlds whilst still maintaining a critical art practice. 

About David Blandy & Larry Achiampong

Larry Achiampong is a multimedia artist whose solo and collaborative projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to explore ideas of cross-cultural and post-digital identity. David Blandy is a multi-disciplinary practitioner reimagining our relationship to the world through performance, video, installation, roleplay and collaborative practices. Making links between geopolitics, the struggle of decolonisation, the ecological crisis and the self in an age of digital dematerialisation, Blandy takes a playful approach to lure viewers into structural and personal analysis.

Image credit: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Finding Fanon 2 2015, Animated Short Film (still). Commissioned by Brighton Digital Festival and Supported by Arts Council England.