Ali Eslami

2025

IDFA Press -  IDFA Institute | Ali Eslami is the recipient of the first Wendy Gutman Award
NRC.nl -  Tentoonstelling ‘Emerging Exits’ in een Arnhemse nazibunker: kunst tussen dreiging en ontsnapping
Umbigo Magazine - Interview with NERD_FUNK: the aesthetics of visual overload
Nerd_Funk a seven year odyssey - A conversation with Angelique Spanninks w/ Mamali Shafahi

2024

Spiritual Cyborg: Virtual Embodiment From Secular Ambiguities to Ontological Opportunities -  Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Monopol Magazin (German) - Sie wollen, dass du müde bist
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (German) - Artwork of the Month by Kiana Tellen

2023

Artist Talk [Video] - Immersive Days #3 at Inter Arts Center
MediaKunst [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 feature
In Conversation with Sumac Space - On Creation of Virtual Spaces with their own temporalities

2021

Nigel Wilkinson – nerd_funk and the emergence of a new genre
WePresent by WeTransfer – Step into VR Artist Ali Eslami’s huge virtual world

2020

Jerry Gogosian – Live Studio Visit
Impossible 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 Spaces
Medium – 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 / Tracks
Join 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 Experience
IDFA 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 Brushstrokes
Road 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