Controlled Dream Machine

Controlled Dream Machine is an installation that creates an unconscious state of dreaming for a machine; a dreaming robot leg suspended from the ceiling where its dreams are expressed by animations projected in a layer in front of the legs. The legs are simulating the physical body of a person dreaming - the state of consciousness, while the animations are the unconscious mind in form of a dream. The legs are constantly generating symptoms from the dreams, which are depending on what unconscious area the legs are in that moment. It dreams of Sensations, Memories, Collective Unconscious, Traumas and Nightmares. Inside the legs there are scars in format of lights, that are stimulated by distributed patterns of neural activity while it dreams.

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Anaisa Franco, 1981. Artist. Since 2007 has been developing works in Medialabs and residences as Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar and Taipei Artist Village. Has a Master in Digital Art and technology at University of Plymouth in England and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo. She has been exhibiting internationally around the world.