Ecstasy: In and About Altered States features works by 30 artists whose works experiment with transcending everyday physical and mental conditions. “In today’s culture, where we are constantly bombarded with sensory stimuli, Ecstasy explores the boundaries in which the virtual and real become blurred through our experiences,” said MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel.

Since the opening, LAMOCA has not allowed the public to enter Erwin Redl‘s installation Matrix II. Recently the artist reached a compromise with the museum in which access will be unrestricted on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Green LED lights are strung on wires from the ceiling in a darkened room, and the measurements are painstakingly exact. The visitor gets the sense of entering an alternate universe – the Matrix – as the lights outline different paths, some straight, some diagonal, some up, some down. The work constantly shifts and redefines itself, offering a completely different panorama depending on the angle and position of the viewer. Combining geometry with art, space, time and perception, it’s an achievement of sheer brilliance – and magic. (from The Orange County Register)

Other artists: Franz Ackermann, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Francis Alÿs, Chiho Aoshima, assume vivid astro focus, Massimo Bartolini, Tatsurou Bashi, Glenn Brown, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Olafur Eliasson, Lara Favaretto, Sylvie Fleury, Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ann Lislegaard, Matt Mullican, Takashi Murakami, Paul Noble, Roxy Paine, Charles Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Paul Sietsema, Fred Tomaselli, and Klaus Weber. The exhibition runs through February 20 at MOCA , Los Angeles.

Via interactive usc. Another image of the work from artnet.