Hyperfeelia: More real than real Virtual Psychedelics and Digital Alchemy
"The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none." Ecclesiastes
Hyperfeelia dismantles the boundaries between technological simulation and psychedelic experience, interrogating the intersection of digital artifice and neural perception. Conjuring amusement park vibes, a selection of artworks is presented in an immersive show that probes consciousness, placebo, and the nature of virtual transcendence.
Digital Candy: A hypnotic kinetic sculpture delivers visual doses of digital acid to stimulate a harmonizing sensorial state
Virtual Psychedelic Roller Coaster Rides: Cinematic projections that move beyond spectacle invoking profound illusions of embodiment to stir body and mind
Gallery of Digital Alchemy: A glimpse into the artist's psychedelic, figurative generative art
Hyperfeelia transforms visitors from passive observers into active participants. In an age where Baudrillard's hyperreality has itself been transcended and digital experience constitutes its own authentic domain rather than mere simulation, this show poses a radical question: Have we moved beyond the dialectic of real and virtual, entering instead an era where digital transcendence manifests its own sovereign truth?
(photo credit: Laura Shepherd)
Laura Shepherd is a London-based digital artist whose work conceptually and perceptually transcends 4D spacetime experience, to present hyper-dimensional perspectives on consciousness and reality in our fast-evolving, technology-driven cultural landscape. Her distinctive practice of Virtual Psychedelics fuses high-definition vector art with fluid, organic form to synthesize a radically modern psychedelic visual language and experience.
This transition reflected both an environmental ethos and a need for artistic expression unbound by material constraints. Drawing inspiration from Art Nouveau's organic forms and 1960s psychedelia, Shepherd’s work is a critique on contemporary culture's commodification of consciousness, and provocation to explore alternative paths to ecstasy through technology, while remaining grounded in the fundamental human capacity for transcendence. Exhibited internationally, Ls528 completed a Gazell.io residency in 2022, where her groundbreaking project Fast Track to Happiness produced dynamic figurative works from a generative pattern-based process.
