Originally a painter and installation artist in London before moving to Los Angeles where he became a pioneer in online entertainment and advertising,
David uses the medium of technology to explore time, memory, and impermanence.
After being treated for a life-threatening illness, he returned to his art practice in 2018, fusing his instincts as a painter with his experience as a filmmaker in projected and screen-based sound and motion works, extending his mediums to include virtual and augmented reality, lenticulars, and generative extrapolations that incorporate photography and AI.
David had his first exhibition at Goldsmith’s College of Art at the age of 14, two years after he built his first personal computer, and developed an interest in interactivity.
His work is in private collections in the U.S. and Europe.
Selected Articles
The Art To Being David Van Eyssen — Forbes
Recently, 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 Eyssen were on display that combined film and still images layered upon each other and interacting in various ways, projected on screens or shown on flat screen TVs. Read More
Could the fall’s best series NOT be on TV? Meet ‘RCVR’ — Variety
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 More
Making Content Too Good For YouTube: How “RCVR” Found 2.6 Million Views in Two Weeks — Indiewire
The man behind “RCVR” is transmedia guru David Van Eyssen. A painter-turned-filmmaker. Read More
Believe Media Goes Back To The Future
Luke Thornton and Liz Silver - founders/owners of Believe Media - announce the launch of iBelieve, a digital and interactive division of Believe Media, to be headlined by online entertainment pioneer, director David van Eyssen. Read More
Multitalented and Multisensory — Psychology Today
Producer. 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 More
David Van Eyssen Profile — Mr. Feelgood
His 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 More
David Van Eyssen Interview — I Am Rogue
David 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 More
LG Advanced Display Technologies Provide Canvas For Unique 4K Multimedia Art Exhibit
Noted Video Artist David Van Eyssen Creates 'Projections' Art Exhibit Using LG CineBeam 4K Projectors and LG OLED TVs Read More
Online Sci-Fi Show RCVR Breaks Out of the 'Tyrannical Rectangle — Streaming Media
David 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 More
An Otherworldly Choreography Routine — Surface
“I was struck by the table’s startlingly thin profile, which suggests an endless horizon provoking images of a barren planet—a clean slate on which life could begin again,” he muses. Thus, his latest project was born. Read More
The Book Paintings of David Van Eyssen — Director, Fondation Maeght
Interestingly, David Van Eyssen’s book paintings find their place in the tradition of the anonymous and timeless author who remembers that the book — in this case the painting — is inseparable from religious tradition. Read More
Video Artist Uses OLED to Display ‘Spooky Actions’
Video artist David Van Eyssen used side-by-side OLED TVs to display his latest “sound and motion” creation over the weekend at the Los Angeles 2020 Frieze Art Fair. Read More
A Look Back At BMW’s The Hire, Branded Content In The Dark Days Of Online Video — Tubular Insights
Back 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 More
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During these years, Van Eyssen worked in London, L.A. and New York City where he produced bookworks — part encaustic paintings, part sculptures. Books of braille, encyclopedias, and the occasional cheap paperback provided canvasses that were burned, torn, cut, and reconstructed. Installations of multimedia work in abandoned office buildings and warehouses used light and sound pieces to dramatic advantage in empty spaces.
Do It Yourself was a box containing paint, brush, masking tape, and instructions (including an audio tape) for painting a white square. Finally, there were books — photographic documents of the installations. Using ‘cut and collage’ techniques, these began as records of exhibitions, but became pieces in themselves.
