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Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen on how VR can bring us closer to nature
Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen on how VR can bring us closer to nature
Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen leverages virtual reality technologies to reorient our relationship with the natural world. We take a deep dive into
Berl-Berl, his ode to wetland ecosystems, opening on 10 July at Berlin’s Halle am Berghain
Throughout, views of the virtual wetland in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s
Berl-Berl (2021)
On the day of our video call, Jakob Kudsk Steensen is in the midst of an expedition in the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve, a wetland area in the German state of Brandenburg. It is teeming with life and removed from civilisation (he’s had to drive to a nearby small town to get reception). He and his team are at the reserve for a few weeks to study the landscape, paddling around in canoes and wielding underwater cameras, microphones and hydrophones ‘to document all this life that lives between the soil and the for