On the night of June 27, The Los Angeles Campus Studio will be transformed to present Morphing, an event realised by Vortex Immersion Media and the c3: Center for Conscious Creativity invites you to MORPHOS, a one night immersive video experience featuring the world premiere of new experimental immersive and interactive video art in the Vortex LA Dome. MORPHOS will take the audience on unique immersive audio visual journeys,ranging from cultural amalgams of human past, present and future to interactive performance and poetic underwater expressions of dolphins and whales.
Vortex, a state of the art facility located at the heart of LA Center Studios, is one of the first domes in the world to house software allowing artists to expand on the immersive experience through easy playback, interactivity, and audience generative art. Artists in Residence include; Ganesh Rao, duo Marina Masic and Jakob LeBaron, Lawrence Curtis and Torie Zalben. Each artist will work in the dome for the month of June to create their work. Ganesh Rao’s work is a collective narrative through an interactive audio visual performance using a generative system and has themed his work from mythological narratives and scriptures of eastern and oriental cultures. Marina Masic and Jakob LeBaron’s work is a multi sensory environment to cultivate media installations to be used in conjunctive therapy sessions to address deficits and traumas. Lawrence Curtis’ work is live action footage exposing a unique experience of how whales and dolphins live in an acoustic, aquatic world. Torie Zalben creates worlds exploring a dreamer ‘s various conscious states. Furthermore, Ethan Bach, Vortex Immersion Media’s Creative Director, as selected the work of a series of artists from all over the world, including: Martin Kusch, Russosky, Claudia Cumbie-Jones and Lance Ford Jones, Alban Low, David Foel, Chiara Passa, David Colagiovianni.