Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm leaves to join the virtual reality company Acute Art based in London. Eric and Ando discuss the future of VR technology in art and the role it already has played.

We are also announcing that Cultural Bandwidth has invited 4 new podcasts to the platform. The Artword, The Conversation (Art Podcast), Art Attack W/ Lizy Dastin and Justin Bua, and the Danish language podcast Lydkunst. Find out more and links to the podcasts on Cultural Bandwidth.

Links:

https://acuteart.com/ https://www.artforum.com/news/moderna-museet-director-daniel-birnbaum-steps-down-to-helm-new-vr-company-75960 https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/daniel-birnbaum-lamnar-moderna-museet/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/acute-art-daniel-birnbaum-1314710 http://www.artnews.com/2018/07/10/daniel-birnbaum-depart-moderna-museet-direct-vr-company-acute-art/

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Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.