Artist James Merry: `It´s beautiful seeing tears coming out of the bottom of a VR headset´
(The Guardian Culture News)

Björk´s co-creative director a talks about translating the singer´s Vulnicura album into an out-of-body virtual reality experienceArtist James Merry, 37, has been working with Björk since 2009; they were introduced by a mutual friend while Merry was studying ancient Greek at Oxford University. He moved to New York to work with her, and played a vital part in her 2011 album, Biophilia, on which each song was accompanied by an interactive app uniting concepts of music, science and nature. Merry has remained Björk´s right-hand man through her 2015 breakup album Vulnicura and this year´s Utopia, as well as making her elaborate masks and headpieces. Their latest project is a full virtual reality version of Vulnicura in which seven VR videos by different directors follow Björk´s path through heartbreak and recovery in the Icelandic landscape, from a verdant valley into a dark lava tube and out the other side. Merry lives and works in Iceland. Continue reading...