Jess Johnson’s geometric illustrations might leave you feeling slightly anxious, like the apocalypse is approaching. Now imagine if these 2D images became 3D, if these static renderings somehow became tangible… That’s what Ixian Gate is like, the groundbreaking virtual reality artwork that she has created in collaboration with video maker Simon Ward. The technically masterful animation opens this December at the NGV, as the piece de resistance of Jess’s Worm Haus exhibition. Viewers will be situated around an "altar," donning Oculus Rift headsets and becoming completely immersed in an acid-flashback, future-dystopia where nothing is quite as it seems and your senses might just fool you into thinking that the unreal is real.
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