2024
Monopol Magazin (German) - Sie wollen, dass du müde bistLWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (German) - Artwork of the Month by Kiana Tellen
2023
Artist Talk [Video] - Immersive Days #3 at Inter Arts CenterMediaKunst [Interview w/ Lena Van Tijen] - ‘Without locality, an artwork can be anything‘
Metropolis M - ‘Between 8-Bit and 8K: visiting 'REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art'
Metropolis M - ‘Art in the age of Metaverse’
Generazione Critica - Work in focus ‘A Stretch of Time’
2022
Volkskrant - Rijksakademie Open Studio 2022 featureIn Conversation with Sumac Space - On Creation of Virtual Spaces with their own temporalities
2021
Nigel Wilkinson – nerd_funk and the emergence of a new genreWePresent by WeTransfer – Step into VR Artist Ali Eslami’s huge virtual world
2020
Jerry Gogosian – Live Studio VisitImpossible Bodies – The Emerging reality of Instagram
Vancouver Biennale – Artist Talk (Nerd_Funk)
Nederlands Film Festival – Interview (Nerd_Funk)
Submarine Channel – Eclipse Interview
2019
Voices of VR Podcast – DocLab: Preserving Avant-garde Digital Culture & VR Embodiment Explorations with Ali Eslami’s “Nerd_Funk”Forbes – Top 35 XR Installations of 2019 (featuring ‘Nerd_Funk”)
Interview Nederlands Film Festival – Sacred Hill at NFF
Amsterdam Fonds – 3Package Deal Interview
Voices of VR Podcast – Iranian Ali Eslami’s Speculative Design of a Virtual City
2018
Medium – Spatial Cognition- Making Virtual SpacesMedium – Virtual Reality as a Cognitive Science Playground
Digital Catapult – Immersive Content Report
Quartz – The next era of war art: virtual reality
2017
Interview – Arte TV / TracksJoin The Resistance Panel Discussion – Alternate Realities Summit
MIT’s OpenDoclab Docubase – DeathTolls Experience
Variety – Paris Virtual Reality Film Festival
Financial Times – How to make 3D charts great again
Medium – Methods of Analyzing Your VR Experience
2016
Vice – The Horrors of Mass Death Are Visualized in This VR ExperienceIDFA 2016 – DocLab Interactive Conference | Ali Eslami
Road to VR – Everything Wrong with Traditional Data Visualization and How VR is Poised to Fix It
IDFA.nl – “We need to look in the mirror ‘
VPRO Dorst [Interview] – Daily Dose of Design : Data
2Docs.nl [Interview] – IDFA DocLab : DeathTolls Experience report
Around Your Screen – Ali Eslami at the Forefront of Surreal and Unique Virtual Reality Experiences with ‘Recept’
Vice – Travel to Vaporwave Valhalla in a New VR Film
UploadVR – ‘Recept’ May Be Leap Motion’s Finest Hour To Date
2015
Vice – Software Turns Your Trackpad Gestures into Painterly BrushstrokesRoad to VR – ‘DeathTolls’ VR Experience Creates Chilling Visualizations of Human Loss
FastCoDesign – Step Inside Magritte’s Surreal Paintings
Yahoo News – Exploring Magritte from within: when VR and paintings meet
The Creators Project – Explore a 3D Environment Made of Magritte Paintings
Artdependence [Interview] – In the surreal world of René Magritte