(Chinen) Now vs. Now (Wednesday) The keyboardist Jason Lindner, the bassist and vocalist Panagiotis Andreou and the drummer Mark Guiliana make up Now vs. Now, an outfit singularly devoted to delivering an immersive mind-body experience through heavy groove.
So dim the lights and lock into one of the most immersive and mind-fucking albums of the year.
With ISAM Live, and its bigger incarnation ISAM Live 2.0, Tobin took on tour a shape-shifting, projection mapped sculpture that surrounded him and treated the audience to an immersive audiovisual mind-meld.
After successfully forgetting the impending reality of my Landmark Forum until the night before it, I looked at a website that collected critiques from people mostly reporters, from Mother Jones to the Observer who had taken it and compared its immersive M.O. to mind control techniques used by some cults.
From large-scale immersive experiences, to mind-bending virtual reality exhibitions, experiential art is an open invitation to step outside of your own reality, tune in to other worlds, and reach higher planes.
The 3D dome mapping performance, screened at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado Boulder, is like an immersive exploration through the mind of a machine, with possible cues taken from the Matrix trilogy and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. .
For avid gamers like myself, the possibilities for more immersive, interactive play are mind-boggling.
A cavernous, six-story space on Fifth Avenue and 109th Street will soon be temporarily transformed into a phantasmagoria of virtual reality, augmented reality, olfactory experiments, immersive theater and numerous mind-bending tricks.
We spoke with Animal Collective about bringing their immersive Guggenheim Museum installation into your mind space, we looked at lord of the disco Giorgio Moroder as our Original Creator, and we saw light painting enter the Matrix.
Harnessing the interactive and immersive qualities of games to change minds and behaviour is a rapidly growing area of research interest; however it's also ingrained in the history of play.
The magician's new experience promises a 13-minute, immersive journey that will 'derail people's minds'.
