Carlos Luna James

aka MGOGLKTKO
Digital & Mixed Media - Installation.
Currently lives and works in LA.


Carlos Luna James, aka MGOGLKTKO, is a multimedia artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to explore the nuances of perception of virtual and physical space through art and technology. By merging sculpture, video projection, animation, and sound, his unending storytelling engages all our sensors at once. The artist wants us to consciously let go of what we perceive as reality and in that state of trance he opens for us an opportunity to connect to other possible parallel reality.

Interested in realms of reality and simulation, fascinated by alter states of consciousness such as dreaming, trance, hypnosis, meditation, and the effects of psychedelic drugs, Carlos uses these transcendental experiences as inspiration for his work. In it, he explores cultural diversity and subsequent hybridization as a fertile soil for cultivating positive human emotions, such as kindness and empathy, and sees the ability to migrate whether in reality or simulation as an opportunity to explore visions of utopian worlds.

Incorporating digital screens, projectors, video mapping, laser cutting, and 3D printing in his creative process, the artist combin...

2007 - Bachelors of Design, Institute of Technology and Higher Studies of the West (ITESO), Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico.

Group Exhibitions

2018 - Fragmented, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
(LACDA), Los Angeles, Ca.

2016 - Museums and the Web, Los Angeles Center for
Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, Ca.

2016 - Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital
Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, Ca.

2016 - Emergence, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
(LACDA), Los Angeles, Ca.

2015 - Shelter, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, Ca.


Art Fair

2019 - LA Art Show, Los Angeles, Ca.

2018 - SCOPE Art Show, Miami, Fl.

2018 - The Other Art Fair, Santa Monica, Ca.