{"title":"On-View","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"wrap\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"inner\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe're in Mid-City, Los Angeles. Come see the best of game-based arts and culture.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lauren-moffatt-fragmentation-engine","title":"Lauren Moffatt: Fragmentation Engine","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLAUREN MOFFATT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFRAGMENTATION ENGINE\u003cbr\u003eNOVEMBER 15-30, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Fragmentation Engine\" refers to breaking down larger systems into smaller, interconnected parts, allowing an overview through segmentation and reassembly. The exhibition uses video game technology as a fragmentation engine to explore world-building, image worlds, and avatar creation, dissecting complex systems into smaller facets or building smaller facets into complex systems to reveal new layers of meaning. As Moffatt explains: \"My relationship with game worlds is not so much about game playing. I build into a universe that I can then share with others through game engine-based work.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing from real and fictional myths of Los Angeles, the works in this exhibition are fragmentary in both literal and figurative senses. Together, they create an environment of controlled dismantling and reconfiguration—sometimes reflective, sometimes outward-facing. Through close attention to details, moods, and surfaces, Moffatt crafts intricate virtual worlds that invite careful observation, conveying an underlying sense that forms are always on the verge of shifting and transforming. She notes: \"I'm obsessive about the details and the surfaces of things. They have a sensory experience.” She aims for viewers to \"feel like they're going through a journey with it that's uncomfortable, even if it is fascinating. People feel pulled in and alienated by the work.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNobody Never Mind\u003c\/strong\u003e (2023): A\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e group of figures are collected in an underground bar. The characters’ spectral presence and looping monologues evoke a world where these ghostly figures are trapped, waiting in a shadowy reflection of what once was. Their fragmented dialogues echo in perpetual loops, suggesting an artificial mental ecology where memories and emotions endlessly recycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eVideo and Augmented Reality Installation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eiOS AR-enabled device, television monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocal Binaries\u003c\/strong\u003e (2022)\u003cbr\u003eAugmented Reality Installation\u003cbr\u003eiOS AR-enabled device\u003cbr\u003eDimensions variable\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/image-technology-echoes?share%3Dcopy\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1731519897078000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0rxCOjrBkA_zoMsONC2ZVT\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/image-technology-echoes?share=copy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eImage Technology Echoes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2021, Virtual Reality Installation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimmerses viewers in a quiet, almost surreal gallery space, where two characters engage in a stilted, looping exchange. When stepping into their inner worlds, viewers encounter chaotic rooms filled with fragmented thoughts and AI-generated monologues, revealing the disparity between polished appearances and tangled, broken thoughts beneath. This work reflects how perception and understanding evolve within individual mental ecologies, shaped by internal and external influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/compostviii?share%3Dcopy\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1731519897078000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0sCQQ8hDdRaBwf1IGED5Qw\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/compostviii?share=copy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCompost\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2019 - ongoing, Video and Photogrammetry Installation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores themes of regeneration and decay, transforming digital errors into forms that blend the sublime with the imperfect. The photogrammetry process introduces distortions, resulting in sculptures that embody a strange, decaying beauty. The series suggests a kind of ecological decay, where imperfections foster new, distorted forms, as if the digital environment itself were alive and constantly reshaping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/theunbinding2014?share%3Dcopy\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1731519897078000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2IsByQ8AdPAHD70PnbZ8G8\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/deptique\/theunbinding2014?share=copy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Unbinding\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2014, Digital Video Installation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexamines self-construction as a process of continuous reinvention. The protagonist reconfigures herself through fragments of found images, embodying an illusion of control and beauty. This cyclical and fleeting act reveals how the pursuit of glamour can lead to a fractured identity. The work invites viewers to consider an ecology of fragmented consciousness, where each reinvention draws from and reshapes the surrounding environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLilies\u003c\/strong\u003e (2024) Single-channel Video, Vertical HD Display (1080 x 1920)\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Lauren Moffatt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLauren Moffatt is an Australian artist working with immersive environments and experimental narrative practices. Her works, often presented in hybrid and iterative forms, explore the paradoxical subjectivity of connected bodies and the indistinct boundaries between digital and organic life. In 2021 she was awarded the DKB VR Art Prize (DE) and in 2022 she was awarded the I Certamen Internacional de Arte Digital (ES) and the Revista MAKMA Aquisition Prize (ES). Lauren completed her studies in painting, in theory and practice of new media art and in audiovisual creation at the College of FineArts (AU), Université Paris VIII (FR), and at Le Fresnoy Studi National des Arts Contemporains (FR) respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLauren's works have been exhibited at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Centre Pompidou (FR), La Gaïté Lyrique (FR), SXSW (US), Haus am Lützowplatz (DE), UNSW Galleries (AU), Daegu Art Museum (KOR), Le Grand Palais Ephémère (FR), SAVVY Contemporary (DE), FACT Liverpool (UK) The Sundance Film Festival (US) ZKM (DE), Q21 Freiraum (AT) and at Hartware MedienkunstVerein (DE). She lives and works in Berlin and\u003cbr\u003eValencia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gameplayarts","offers":[{"title":"11\/21 6-8 PM","offer_id":50518597599396,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\/23 12-3 PM","offer_id":50518597632164,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\/30 12-3 PM","offer_id":50518597664932,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/3125\/0852\/files\/LocalBinariesMKVTarget.png?v=1731194366"},{"product_id":"dec-6th-a-cell-is-a-carnival","title":"Dec. 6th-8th: A Cell is a Carnival","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA CELL IS A CARNIVAL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDECEMBER 6-8, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOPENING NIGHT EVENT: FRIDAY DEC 6 \/\/ 7 PM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSix games at the arcade, six candles for the summoning, and six stars in the constellation. Six ghosts in the shell. Six artists in transit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are infinite ways of mapping any six points in the spacetime continuum. This is but all of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Cell is a Carnival\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an experiment in nested proximities and mixed metaphors: body as fairground, ritual as network, wormhole as world. Featuring new works by six media artists from UCLA’s Design|Media Arts MFA program (Chelly Jin, Rowena Kou, Sadia Quddus, Sagan Yee, Stamatis Hamouzas, and Xiner Lan), the show celebrates the osmotic ability of art and technology to move through permeable boundaries of selfhood and community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs emerging artists, we operate as organelles, barkers, and daemons. We seek to replicate, merge, and evolve in concert with friends and familiar strangers, while maintaining tenuous boundaries of individual autonomy. Inspired by images of organic membranes and the cloth walls of circus tents, our collective practice also functions as a fluid structure, shifting endlessly between solitude and belonging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe especially invite you to join us for our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening Night event on Friday, December 6 at 7 PM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. As you cross the gallery threshold, you will discover such curious delights as: an encrypted hand puppet, divinatory technologies, consensual eavesdropping, teeth as a symbol of eroded time, the gamification of the mammalian reward system, and kaleidoscopic fragments of self and memory. We invite you to enter, to circulate and celebrate, to absorb and be absorbed in turn … and then to break away, retreat, and say our fond farewells. Until the next time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFEATURING ART BY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chellyj.in\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/chellyj.in\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChelly Jin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenish._.rowena\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenish._.rowena\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRowena Kou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sadia.space\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/sadia.space\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSadia Quddus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.saganyee.com\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.saganyee.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSagan Yee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dredgeops\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dredgeops\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStamatis Hamouzas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/xinerlan.com\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/xinerlan.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXiner Lan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan id=\"m_9121052597684911013gmail-docs-internal-guid-6762a251-7fff-d570-aefd-accc7fd38b1e\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis show is part of A CELL IS A CARNIVAL, a three-part series of events taking place across Los Angeles during the first week of December. It was conceived as a means to cultivate a community-building and exhibition practice beyond the university campus. For updates and more information, follow us on Instagram \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/subtangled_complex\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1732297342943000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0Tv0Lk6D06ak2RYmmsKOSC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/subtangled_complex\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e@subtangled_complex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and visit our website at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/cellisacarnival.cargo.site\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1732297342943000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3KI79eyfQxmc5SK0mspSXx\" href=\"http:\/\/cellisacarnival.cargo.site\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecellisacarnival.cargo.site\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInformation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAddress is 5511 W. 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