Expanded Realities Conversations with Daniel Birnbaum and Honor Harger

As a curator and museum director (formerly at Moderna Museet, Stockholm), Daniel Birnbaum has many years of experience working with artists and contemporary art. With Acute Art, he is bringing that experience to cutting-edge technology and enabling renowned international artists to create original artworks in virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Previously, Birnbaum curated the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007) the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and Zero (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2015). In 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennale. Birnbaum co-authored Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition with Swedish philosopher and professor Sven-Olov Wallenstein, published by Sternberg Press in 2019.

Honor Harger is Executive Director of ArtScience Museum in Singapore, which has held large-scale exhibitions by some of the world's best-known artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dalí and M.C. Escher, and presented significant exhibitions that explore aspects of science including big data, particle physics, natural history, marine biology, cosmology and space exploration. Before joining ArtScience Museum, Harger was the director of Lighthouse, a digital arts venue in Brighton, UK. In 2010, she was guest curator of the transmediale festival in Berlin, and from 2004 to 2008, she was director of the AV Festival, then the UK's largest biennial of digital art, film and music. She was the first curator of webcasting for Tate, where she also curated events and concerts at Tate Modern. Harger is one of the co-founders of the sound art collective, r a d i o q u a l i a.