EXPENSIVE DAYS, SINGAPOREBlockchain entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan, also known by his pseudonym MetaKovan, shows the digital artwork ‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ by artist Beeple at h...Image by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP
A TOKEN ART, INDIANatlet, an artwork by Susanta Kumar Panda and Ramakanta Samantaray, highlights the perfect beauty of nature and the fatality of unchecked rampant urban expansion. It’s amo...Image by COURTESY TERRAIN.ART
STARRY NIGHT, CANADA Assistant director Nicolas Babillon calibrates the set-up before a preview of Imagine Van Gogh, an immersive digital art exhibition at the Vancouver Convention Centre i...Image by ANDREW CHIN / GETTY IMAGES
STARRY NIGHT-2, CANADACreated by French artistic directors Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, the massive projections create a space where people experience van Gogh’s art in ways unlike tr...Image by MERT ALPER DERVIS / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
MEET GEISHA PROJECT, JAPANA geisha rehearses for an online drinking party with clients in Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. With the pandemic forcing the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic...Image by PHILIP FONG / AFP
KINKY PLAY, USADominatrix Madame Margherite rehearses in front of her laptop in her dungeon ahead of a virtual strip club event livestreamed on September 4, 2020, in Los Angeles, California...Image by VALERIE MACON / AFP
DIGITAL DRAG, ITALYAt an atelier filled with shelves overflowing with wigs, feathers and hundreds of stage costumes, Karma B prepares for her livestreamed performance on StageIt. The aim of...Image by ALESSANDRO SERRANO’ / AGF / UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES
VITAMIN CLOWN, GERMANYClinic clown ‘Vitamins’ (real name Ute von Koerber) conjures up surprises and humours 11-year-old Pauline online, who is recovering at a hospital in Cottbus, Germany. ...Image by CHRISTOPH SOEDER / PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES
MEMORABLY GROUNDED, JAPANKatsuo Enuoe and his daughter enjoy the trimmings of a business class cabin and soak up the sights of Florence and Rome—without ever leaving Tokyo. Tapping into a g...Image by KIM KYUNG-HOON / REUTERS
ROW YOUR BOAT, CHINA The scenic route starts from Ping Hu Qiu Yue, also known as the ‘Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake’ and gently glides over spots like ‘Two Peaks Piercing the Clouds’. Vis...Image by GUO ZHIHUA / VCG VIA GETTY IMAGES
CYBER SINGER, FRANCEJapanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku—an animated 16-year-old with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails—performs on stage during a concert at the Zenith concert ha...Image by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
VIRTUAL WIFE, JAPAN Akihiko Kondo (35), a Tokyo school administrator, poses for a photograph with a doll modelled after VR singer Hatsune Miku at his apartment, wearing their wedding rings ...Image by KWIYEON HA / REUTERS
SUMMER VACATIONS, CHINAFor children in Guizhou, summer vacation days out means a VR experience in a showroom of new technology at a tourism attraction in Xingyi in southwest China’s Guizhou...Image by FEATURE CHINA / BARCROFT MEDIA VIA GETTY IMAGES
TRIP TO THE ZOO, JAPAN A RakuRo autonomous self-driving robot developed by ZMP Inc moves past a zebra at the Chiba Zoological Park, Japan. The online event allows children quarantined at ho...Image by TOMOHIRO OHSUMI / GETTY IMAGES
CHEF’S HAT, MYANMAR Young chef Moe Myint May Thu films a cooking video at home in Yangon. From boiled catfish soup to spicy fried frog, this eight-year-old in pyjamas and a chef’s hat delig...Image by YE AUNG THU / AFP
SOARING BALLET, KENYALydia Akoth (10), a member of Project Elimu, practises dancing on a sofa at home during a ballet lesson via a mobile phone at the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Project...Image by GORDWIN ODHIAMBO / AFP
