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The Exhibition:

In 2026, as part of the SIGGRAPH Los Angeles Conference, a curatorial team supported by a collaborative partnership between ACM SIGGRAPH DAC, Techspressionist Artists, and LACDA debuted six new co-created works. Each team consisted of at least one, Techspressionist artist, composer, and technologist. Their artistic collaboration, “the experiment”, explores a new creation resulting in an ongoing augmented interactive space and soundscape within a speculative expression of an alternate reality.

Within the New Media Architectures (NMA) exhibition series, this exhibition conceptually anchors a second part of this global invitation for selected composers to share music / sound works for a soundtrack engaging our LA moment in time. The theme prompts were Granular Synthesis, Electro-Acoustic Improvisation and Live Performance, Remix Culture, Spatialization, Live Streaming Performance, Modular Synthesis, Generative Systems, Game Engines &/or Visual Music, Glitch Art, and Los Angeles. 

The New Media Techspressionist Architectures Exhibition Experiment lives at the intersection of art, music, and technology revealing new states of being, “life” within contemporary artistic visions of the existing imaginative architectures of today. 

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Curators + Organizers

• Joshua Dickinson
• Tuna Bora 
• Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
• Randi Matushevitz (Techspressionists – Curator)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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OPENING # ONE

– @lacda_official Th. July 9, 6-10pm

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Exhibition Experiment – Techspressionists 

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Ambient Ocean, 2026

Animation and Musical Soundscape constructed from the Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series
Thanks to the Menden-Deuer lab at the University of Rhode Island.

• Patrick Hart
• Aaron McLeran
• Cynthia Beth Rubin   

This collaborative artwork invites us to imaginatively experience the rhythms of microscopic ocean life through artistic moving images and a musical score driven by ocean data. Together they create an immersive experience highlighting plankton as vital to marine ecosystems, inviting reflection on unseen life, interdependence, and hidden rhythms sustaining the ocean and ourselves.

https://ocean.rhizome.audio

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Fringe Vision, 2026

AI-Assisted Mixed Reality

• Biayna Bogosian
• Slavica Ceperkovic
• Pierre Jolivet
• Annette Weintraub

Fringe Vision presents an eccentric landscape inhabited by discarded everyday objects. Based on extracted style images, the video combines AR screenshots, AI generated 3D objects and video, set against a complex sonic landscape. Fringe Vision disrupts perceptions of scale, materiality, and liminality, transforming everyday space into a speculative landscape.

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Garden of Becoming, 2026

3d World and Soundscape

• Randi Matushevitz
• Han Qin
• Margaret Schedel

Garden of Becoming explores humanity’s instinct to create ideal refuges for an ever-evolving self. Drawing from the Met’s Astor Court, three artists merge virtual architecture, animated fragmented bodies, and layered sound into a single work, where a classical Chinese garden becomes a space where completeness is perpetually desired and perpetually deferred.

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On the Corner, 2026

Augmented Reality Electronic Visual Music

• Victor Acevedo
• Alessandro Fadini
• Joel Zika     

On the Corner is a collaborative work of Augmented Reality which interrogates and abstracts fleeting moments captured mostly at a street corner in downtown Los Angeles. The work features live video, spatialized audio, musical compositions, and 3D renders to decode a moment in time and explore the subjective nature of our perception.

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Tread Softly, 2026

Interactive Experience using Azure Kinect

• Lucy Boyd-Wilson
• Yuehao Gao
• Stephen Paré

Tread Softly is an interactive work exploring our presence within living ecosystems. An Azure Kinect camera tracks viewers’ movements, triggering particles from projected forms – from abstract geometries through soil, roots, flowers and trees. Every movement leaves a trace. We are never outside nature; we are always moving through it.

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Uncanny Garden, 2026

Augmented Reality and Soundscape 

• Gustavo Guzman
• Randi Matushevitz
• Bin Youn

Uncanny Garden is a collaborative augmented reality experience inspired by Randi Matushevitz’s Flowergirl and Limelight (2026). Participants summon five “Flowergirls” through hand gestures rooted in elemental cosmology to evoke their florescence. A mediated ritual exploring fertility, transformation, and the self, it invokes lush and electronic sonorities to complement the uncanniness.

 www.uncanny.live

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An Album 

“Scenes in the Hyperreal”

Music Compositions

• Tracks:

1. 1. (4:36) – Tomavatars – La revolución de la Tierra alrededor del Sol, 2026
   2. (2:49) – Curtis Roads – Touche pas part 1, 1994-2021
   3. (2:39) – Curtis Roads – Touche pas part 2, 1994-2021
   4. (4:52) – Xárene Eskandar, Riding the rings of Saturn. Chasing the moons of Mars, 2014
   5. (6:40) – Anthony Baldino, Unreleased Modular, 2021
   6. (6:02) – Ryan McGee, Bering, 2018
   7. (6:49) – Fedir Tkachov, Captains’ Quarters, n.d.
   8. (1:58) – Makunouchi Bento (Felix Petrescu + Valentin Toma), CIT (Cea care iubește teatrul), n.d.
   9. (2:38) – Michael Hetrick, Edgewise Dub, 2025
   10. (2:42) – Mleuc (Maclov le Calvez), Mue Process, n.d.
   11. (6:56) – Ursula Kwong-Brown & Danny Erdberg, Here Come the Warm Clouds, n.d.
   12. (5:40) – Marko Prsa, Thirteen Winds, n.d.
   13. (2:18) – Makunouchi Bento, Scările de la intrarea artiștilor, n.d.
   14. (2:46) – Valance Drakes, My Shadow Knows My Story, n.d.
   15. (6:17) – JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (Performed by Jill Felber), timeandagain, 2007

This exhibition is committed to accessibility and inclusivity. By entering the SIGGRAPH Conference exhibition area and LACDA gallery, you agree to comply with all posted rules and instructions. 

• We welcome passive listening via personal audio devices, any unauthorized recording of the album and filming of the exhibition space for commercial use is legally prohibited. 
• All images, texts, materials, and media works in this exhibition or on our digital platforms are on loan from the artist’s private collections. 
• Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use without prior written consent from the Artist(s) or the respective copyright holder is strictly prohibited and is protected by strict copyright laws.

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The Idea

We invited creatives from all over the world – Composers, Sound Artists, Music Producers, Computer Scientists, Visual Artists, and Media Artists to be part of a collaborative Augmented Reality exhibition between the SIGGRAPH LA 2026 conference and LACDA. Our invitation was answered by artists, hackers, makers, and techno-scientists to build a new creative community exchanging artistic gestures for all to hear, feel, and see as a non commodifiable open performative experience – as forms + shapes + sounds. 

AI, data, and automated robotic systems now decorate and reshape movement within the Los Angeles building blocks, streets, freeways, highways, and underpasses. The impact on all the living interspecies populations in flowing movement above, below, within, and through a new definition of a City built on invisible economies of desire. Delivery robots, self-driving cars, and app-based mobility transport can be seen in its totality as a new kind of realized machinic – Algorithmic “Dream.” 

How can we describe this new state of being, “life” within a new contemporary media-architecture(s) in arguably the most creative media city in the history of the world, Los Angeles, CA? What is a performative expression today in the arts for the 21st century? Techspressionism in LA is born of the science of fiction, the economies of cinematic dreams, experiences as a collapse of urban (e)scapes, and the contrasting geospatial maps that lead our lives forward in space and time. 

A new rethinking in all forms of space, an augmented public and private urban layered series of technological fabrics are born by reclaiming space as a radical medium within our invisible digitized world as part of a new expressive language of media. 

Our creative inquiry draws from sources that help frame our contemporary life starting from Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema on the boundaries of the art of perception from moving images; Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation on the realities produced by language of symbols in a Post Modern society; Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology on the meaning of being, embedded in our many types of material worlds; and Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus for proposing tools for releasing our limits in rethinking our existing philosophical grounds for reimagining society. To bring these ideas into a critical and radical conceptual dialogue, we look to Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze as a guerrilla guide to refusing the algorithmically-guided lights, synthetic cloud computing systems substituting nature into the minds of each person as an agent.

The days and nights of LA’s inhabitants with a constantly evolving visual music of technological messaging, let us rethink as New Media Architect(s), the composers of the covered walls and signage on the sides of buildings made of the images on LED Screens. The spaces that live in the in-between without viewable biological life, let’s explore together all possible computationally born life that can add to our human experience. 

We discovered a community of artistic explorers, urban media artists and scientists, who radically reimagined a human digitized expression for our world. We moved beyond Mike Davis’ The City of Quartz, a text that defined LA’s past, Hollywood’s cinematic visions of escape in the future, and the music that marked many generational shifts making sense of our sonically chaotic present day. 

This is an artistic movement realized in an exhibition as critique starting from LA and moving out toward a global celebration of the miracle that we call “life.” We found a  new language of augmented mediated reality.

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Collaborative partners – Techspressionists – https://techspressionism.com/

• • Artists: Victor Acevedo, Randi Matushevitz, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Lucy Boyd-Wilson ,& Annette Weintraub

LACDA – https://www.lacda.com/

• • Rex Bruce

ACM SIGGRAPH DAC – https://dac.siggraph.org/

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Special Thanks:

• ACM SIGGRAPH DAC Committee
  • Rebecca Xu, Bonnie Mitchell, & Victoria Szabo

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