Previously Anderson and Huang were awarded the prize for Best VR Experience at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. A virtual reality ( VR ) interactive experience at Art Basel in Hong Kong simulates walking on the moon , to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission . Created by US artist Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese mixed - media artist Hsin - Chien Huang , To the Moon ( 2018 ) is a 15-minute experience developed in conjunction with HTC VIVE Arts . Visitors get a sense of low - gravity while walking across the VR lunar surface . Human environmental impacts are the focus , with visitors confronted by man - made debris , words drawn from constellation groups , and various animal sounds . The work debuted at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark .
A virtual reality ( VR ) interactive experience at Art Basel in Hong Kong simulates walking on the moon , to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission . Created by US artist Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese mixed - media artist Hsin - Chien Huang , To the Moon ( 2018 ) is a 15-minute experience developed in conjunction with HTC VIVE Arts . Visitors get a sense of low - gravity while walking across the VR lunar surface . Human environmental impacts are the focus , with visitors confronted by man - made debris , words drawn from constellation groups , and various animal sounds . The work debuted at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark .