​SWIRL: An Immersive Art Party - A one-day experiment in generative technology, immersion, and interactivity.

​Presented by Machine Cinema, Creative Technology Center

​On August 23rd, Machine Cinema, the Creative Technology Center invite you into something different — a single day designed to show you where creativity is going, what it feels like to live inside it, this is SWIRL... synthetic world in real life.

Our amazing community of AI artists have assembled amenagerie of colors, sights, and sounds!

​Featured Acts:

​BBL DRIZZY: THE MUSICAL - Created by King Willonious, a Time 100 AI Innovator... A genre-bending sci-fi musical where hip-hop meets meme culture in a clout-obsessed future. In a world where “likes” equal power and influence means survival, one fame-hungry underdog battles through rap duels, family drama, and a ruthless fame-obsessed system to discover who he really is.

​Inspired by a viral AI-assisted song that captured a cultural flashpoint, BBL Drizzy blends original music, sharp satire, and audience-triggered storytelling into a bold, interactive dome experience exploring ambition.

​BECOMING WITH from choreographer and XR artist Zelia ZZ Tan, it is an intimate hybrid performance adapted from Living Landscape , exploring care, vulnerability, memory, and transformation through dance. Inspired by the myth of Achilles from a feminist perspective, the work asks how bodies continue to carry and reshape one another through shared experience. Live virtual environments evolve alongside the performers, extending choreography into an immersive dialogue between physical and digital presence. Together, movement and technology cultivate a poetic space where audiences are invited to sense new possibilities for connection, embodiment, and becoming.

​PLEXUSPLAY; Matt DiBiase combines electronic music, live instruments, immersive visuals, reactive LED wearables, and audience participation to create a festival dance experience unlike any other. With his custom electronic xylophone, PlexusPlay improvises melodies and triggers audio samples linked to his visuals and light suit, creating a show that’s both dazzling and impactful.

​DREAM NAVIGATOR: From Louie Pecan and Nicl Regalbuto, an update from their previous shared experience, attendees will be invited on stage to whisper their dreams into a microphone and have them brought to generative life on the projection mapped walls, and this time they will get to navigate the 3D space of theor dreams with a joystick.

​THE DOME GALLERY: Step inside a full projection dome for a sensory screening of short films made by our generative AI filmmakers, made exclusively for the format. Works from talented artists from our community will be featured across the dome.

​More acts to be announced + demos and presentations with leading AI tool companies and studios.

​This is an early look at our vision for the future of entertainment — and we intend to do this again and again.