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David Van Eyssen is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work explores time, memory, technology, and impermanence through photography, video, installation, projection, AI, virtual and extended reality, lenticular imaging, 2.5D printing, and sculpture.
Originally a painter and installation artist in London, Van Eyssen moved to Los Angeles, where he created pioneering work in entertainment, advertising, and interactive storytelling before returning to an art-centered practice. Several years of medical treatment now inform his recent body of work, which is concerned with fragility, embodiment, and the unstable nature of presence.
Van Eyssen had his first exhibition at Goldsmiths College of Art at fourteen, two years after building his first personal computer. His work is held in private collections in the United States and Europe, and previous sponsors have included Varjo, LG Electronics, and Panasonic.
Selected articles
ArtlystThe Art Diary October 2024MOCA London is featuring Van Eyssen’s work with its first augmented reality exhibition ‘Encounter’. Visitors will enter what appears to be an empty gallery except for a QR code. Once they scan the QR, it will…Read ↗
RNIBLondon Artist Captures Blind People’s Hidden Dreams Using Mixed Reality HeadsetsThe Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the UK’s leading sight loss charity, has collaborated with Varjo, the global leader in professional-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software,…Read ↗
USC Center on Public DiplomacyIn Conversation: The Next Generation of Interactivity and StorytellingIn Conversation: The Next Generation of Interactivity and Storytelling, with David Van Eyssen, a pioneer in new forms of art, technology and storytelling. As the world enters the next phase of the internet,…Read ↗
RNIB ConnectThe Private Life of Public Transport - An Immersive Art Installation by Artist David Van EyssenThe Private Life of Public Transport is a new immersive art installation by Artist David Van Eyssen using virtual and mixed reality along with sound and light to open the door on the life, thoughts and dreams…Read ↗
Mr. FeelgoodDavid Van Eyssen ProfileHis pieces are intricately woven together, expertly engineered, crafted with the quality level of a dedicated artisan. They are dreamy, surreal, immersive and hauntingly beautiful – part reality, and part possibility.Read ↗
PressLG Advanced Display Technologies Provide Canvas For Unique 4K Multimedia Art ExhibitNoted Video Artist David Van Eyssen Creates 'Projections' Art Exhibit Using LG CineBeam 4K Projectors and LG OLED TVsRead ↗
LG ElectronicsVideo Artist David Van Eyssen Debuts Collaboration With LG On Unique Art Installation At Kimpton La Peer HotelSpooky Actions At A Distance, shown on LG OLED at West Hollywood’s Kimpton La Peer hotel to coincide with Frieze LA 2020.Read ↗
Sound & VisionVideo Artist Uses OLED to Display ‘Spooky Actions’Spooky Actions At A Distance, a takeoff on Einstein’s phrase for quantum entanglement, was featured at the Kimpton La Peer hotel in West Hollywood.Read ↗
I Am RogueDavid Van Eyssen InterviewDavid Van Eyssen is an online artist who was ahead of his time. He began experimenting with interactive storytelling before there was technology that even existed to house his ideas.Read ↗
Streaming MediaOnline Sci-Fi Show RCVR Breaks Out of the 'Tyrannical RectangleDavid van Eyssen hadn’t heard of Machinima when he wrote RCVR, which would go on to become an enormous hit for the online network. In fact, he only got in touch with the company by chance.Read ↗
Assignment XExclusive Interview: RCVR creator and director David Van Eyssen talks about his new sci-fi web seriesThe project was conceived by director David Van Eyssen (who also serves as co-scripter and producer). It’s designed as a multi-platform experience extending beyond jus the series itself and into a whole…Read ↗
ForbesThe Art To Being David Van EyssenRecently, I went to an art opening in Santa Monica, where a doorman stood guard, clipboard in hand like at some private party or club. A spiral staircase led to a basement gallery where new works by David Van…Read ↗
The GuardianSeeing Double: Mirrors in Art - In PicturesArtists have long been drawn to mirrors’ reflective surfaces. More than 150 artworks have been collected in a new book, drawing together sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs and more.Read ↗
Surface MagazineThis Razor-Thin Table Inspired an Otherworldly Choreography RoutineThe table’s otherworldliness resonated with video artist David Van Eyssen, whose head immediately went to the clouds. “I was struck by the table’s startlingly thin profile, which suggests an endless horizon…Read ↗
On The TrendLuminex 2.0: Outdoor Art Exhibit Of Projected RealitiesArriving on a metro bus and immersing myself within the public art scene, I attended “LUMINEX 2.0” to explore an award-winning art exhibition displayed in the South Park District of DTLA.Read ↗
Psychology TodayMultitalented and MultisensoryProducer. Director. Writer. Painter. Multimedia artist. Empath. Synesthete David Van Eyssen uses all of his senses, including the bonus, synesthetic ones, to excel in many mediums.Read ↗
PressArtist David Van Eyssen Debuts New Sound and Motion Artwork on LG OLED Gallery TVsAs an extension of my interest in time and memory, I began to think about the data portrait we create by interacting electronically with ourselves and others," said Van Eyssen. "The neural connections we…Read ↗
VarietyCould the fall’s best series NOT be on TV? Meet ‘RCVR’With the new fall TV season just underway, the hunt is on for The Next Big Thing. But as you scour the airwaves, it might be worth considering that this could finally be the year that the Web beats TV to the punch?Read ↗Tubular InsightsA Look Back At BMW’s The Hire, Branded Content In The Dark Days Of Online VideoBack in 2001, Internet video for me was watching movie trailers, and there was no thought that anything longer, or anything of more substance, would be coming along soon.Read ↗ShootFallon, iBelieve Explore Interactive EntertainmentThough they weren’t at liberty to publicly discuss specifics at press time, ad agency Fallon, Minneapolis, and Hollywood-based iBelieve Media have teamed on several interactive assignments. Their endeavors…Read ↗New Publication: Mirror Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art
David’s work will be appearing in the latest book by artist-curator-author, Michael Petry. Mirror Mirror, which explores the work of contemporary artists working with reflections, will be published by Thames & Hudson in October 2024.
"David Van Eyssen was a well known new media creator when he became ill. He has said that ‘During several years of cancer treatment, I took photographs of myself with my phone, recording surgeries and side-effects, and using the camera to confirm my existence.’
In recovery, he has gone on to explore his self portraiture practice. For his series, A Slim Volume of Poetry In No Particular Order, he temporarily installed and broke large mirrors across Los Angeles. These startling works hide as much as document, and the viewer must work hard to seek him out. The violence stilled in the fractured image has a clear bodily parallel. Using AI techniques in DisAppearance, sections around the edges of four self portraits were extended until the figures recede into an imagined vista."
