Bio

Laura Shepherd (Ls528) is a digital artist and designer based in London.

She has exhibited in group shows across Europe and US, and a former resident artist at Gazell.io

Ls528 explores the potential for machine consciousness and simulated  psychedelic experience. Using a mix of digital art tools, the practice conceptually and perceptually transcends classical 4D spacetime to generate emergence in hyper-dimensional realities. 

Synopsis

TRIP 29:  With feet firmly on the ground, viewers are invited to focus and fix their gaze on the artwork for a 90 second digital virtual psychedelic roller coaster ride, and feel the illusion of presence and embodiment as the journey twists and turns. 

Trip 29 is from a series of virtual psychedelic roller coaster ride animations that activate Ls528’s digital acid pattern. Using a generative art process these transformational journeys synthesise a radically modern psychedelic visual language and experience, to explore ideas around placebo and the potential for emergent machine intelligence.  

The goal of this trip is ecstasy.