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Blogging on art since 2009 at criticismism.com and travel since 2023 at marksheerin.substack.com. See also The Arts Desk, Hyperallergic, Plaster and Disability Arts Online. Core interests: prehistoric caves, replicas, representations, immersive art, XR.
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This piece reveals itself to be bait for digital nomads. Sheesh!

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Really fascinating interview with Élise Lafontaine in the latest Border Crossings, with plenty to say about caves.

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Cages, cats, artistic convention and other impressions from from Amman

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Holy moly, the replica is sacred too!

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An immersive Lowry painting makes good sense and this one is football related and free to enter. Should do numbers!

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All these tech corps: teasing the market with a quite alarming dance of the seven veils. And the journos: apparently trying to find the story.

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I don't know who wants to see this, but I maintain a blog on art which has been going for nearly 16 years. My latest post is on a show in Gosport by a real master of found materials, sculptor Tom Dale. If it's of interest, click away.

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Explore a huge cave with cloud inside, in the company of a few cave bros, via this slow TV clip. 16 mins, get a cuppa!

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Stone circles through the lens of Gen Z. I reviewed this delightful show at the visitor centre of Stone Henge for @theartsdesk.bsky.social

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Piccadilly promises immersive art from the 'Willy Wonka of Design and Science'. That's a lot.

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Silver service dining in a cave. Did the neanderthals really die for this!?

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I was swimming yesterday evening and noticed that one of the other swimmers was wearing these. XR has reached poolside!

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"The future is immersive, and it’s coming faster than you might think."

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Good vid about the new Apple Vision Pro. Note, great care is taken around basic physical comfort (to fully realise spatial computing could mean keeping these goggles on for long stretches. The presenter seems exhausted by the experience!)

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Combine an early adopter's passion for XR together with niche nostalgia for arcade cabinet gaming and you get this.

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Immersive work of art or wholesome, sustainable soft play area? I don't know.

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A recent immersive artwork by Julien Creuzet has what might be described as an immersive title: 'Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon'.

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My latest substack post is flummoxed

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This was such a great interview to do. Really opened up one of the standout works from Vital Signs at the Science Gallery. Thank you @disabilityarts.bsky.social and @cathymager.bsky.social

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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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The additional elements to portraiture which you never knew you needed. They're calling it Stories.

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Frenzy and madness. A theory put forward for a Victorian era decorated cave in Flintshire.

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Interesting... an immersive art piece which deals in sight loss rather than an visual overload

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Meet the art team who are bigger than Van Gogh, the art genre worth more than any.

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A bit of prelapsarian cannibalism in the news. Yikes!

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In-person cave mediator (tour guide) aims to offer adrenaline rush and feelings of ecstasy.

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“In the world of Trump Trad, men are men and women are women, and they cosplay as extreme versions of their genders.” For WaPo, I have a look at the aesthetics of the Trump presidency: backward looking and full of cartoonish virility. I call it Trump Trad. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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Will 'AI Glasses' replace smartphones? This billionaire hopes so.

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Roman coin from time of Emperor Claudius used in unknown ritual, deep in Spanish cave in use from palaeolithic times

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The zombie spider story has a cave angle. Joy! www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie...

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Took a nibble at this old chestnut... marksheerin.substack.com/p/trade-deal

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Goals: explore rural Japan visiting near-legendary immersive contemporary artworks www.tokyoweekender.com/travel/disco...

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One thing you realise about tracking caves online is that the most celebrated cave of our time is not Lascaux, Sulawesi or Mammoth, it is this chap. Captured here when he was still a bit underground (15 year old me was at this gig): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyG8...

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Sensational reading. What is it with caves and heroes? www.iflscience.com/sand-cave-in...

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5min audio about some parietal works by kids at Las Monedas in Spain. Suggests ice age families were living the good life. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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If you've got a PlayStation 5 and a PSVR2 headset, you can go spelunking for realsies. Cave Crave, due for release in Spring, just about wraps everything up. You can even graffiti the walls. www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/01...

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I tried to step away from the internet and write a review of Electric Dreams at Tate Modern marksheerin.substack.com/p/try-closin...

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The cutting edge moves closer. Multi-user VR installations are the new wave for museums and enterprising 'art' companies. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/29/t...

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Very useful podcast on immersive art, reflecting on the influence of museum period rooms, the Light and Space movement, COVID, interactive art and performance art. glasstire.com/2025/01/26/a...

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Experimental archaeologists recreating a 7th century ship found in Suffolk have big plans (perhaps even a drag race against a viking longboat!). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Giant sloths suspected of carving out intergenerational paleoburrows. Mindblown. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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'Frameless' self promotion! My report from a recent visit to London's most extensive immersive art experience marksheerin.substack.com/p/motion-pic...

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Digital objects are getting fully tactile, thanks to "a big spider on the back of your hand". venturebeat.com/games/haptik...

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Trying to get a handle on the development of VR, XR and AR glasses. In short, these technologies are a work in progress, and most of the headsets seem like holding pages. But once these ski masks have shrunk a bit, they'll come into everyday use. www.tomsguide.com/computing/vr...

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Doric coiumn madness... www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...

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Don't say I didn't warn you www.avinteractive.com/territories-...

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German TV offers a 12-minute film (in English) about immersive art experiences, with a few interesting pundits: www.dw.com/en/why-our-b...

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