Project: Dream Lab
Project Member: Helen Wu and Hongyi Zhang
Device and Mood:
Dreams are extremely absurd and absurd, scientists have never looked at them squarely. However, dreams did help scientists. For example, when chemists discovered benzene molecules, they were inspired by dreams. There was an emperor in the Han Dynasty named Emperor Han Ming. He dreamed that a person came to his dream with a bow and arrow on his back. The minister analyzed that it was a Buddhist character, so Emperor Han Ming sent envoys to India to welcome the monks and built the first building in China, the White Horse Temple. . The impact of dreams on mankind is still great.
The study of modern dreams initially entered the academic field of vision, thanks to a psychoanalyst, Freud’s “The Study of Dreams.” As a good material for studying the subconscious, the interest in dream research began to spread from the psychology world to the science world.
Modern brain science is very preliminary and superficial to dream research. Research shows that both humans and mammals dream. Everyone dreams every night. When dreaming, the eyes move quickly, which is called the eye movement sleep cycle. In rapid eye movement and research has shown that waking up the dreamer during the night dreaming period will cause emotional problems in the long term. It seems that dreaming has something to do with human processing emotions and emotions.
It is really not easy to explain the principles of dreams clearly. Because it involves the working principle of the brain and the science of mind. In the field of philosophy and religion, there are many statements about dreams.
Based on all those backgrounds, my partner and I would like to build up a DreamLab to participate in the open call of MIMA’s fall exhibition season.
As we all know, different people under different situations could have different dreams depending on different timelines. Based on this to well present our open call project, we would like to use different devices to present different kinds of dreams. The main device we’d like to use is discovery, which not only presents the dreams or information, but also collects, data driven, returns us and analyzes the big data. Discovery will help us find some inner world, what’s the relationship between our individual, internal, external, physical space and virtual world etc. We are gonna use some hi-tech devices and equipment to achieve this point. Such as brain scanner machines, Kinect, leapmotion, big data collections, databank, databases and data analyzer etc., which helps the audience to explore the world of dreams and build up the dream databank to achieve data driven the whole project. DreamLab will discover and present what is dream. Meanwhile, we would also use metaphor, juxtaposition, narrate and amplification to assist present the details and specifics. Dream is a mysterious metaphor，nobody knows what will happen during your dreaming. Therefore, in our project, we will make and show some abstract and mysterious pictures to present how powerful a dream is. Audience will feel the magic of dreams from the visual effects that DreamLab designs. Apart from that, dreams are diverse, it could be positive, could be negative, could be happiness, could be horrible. So we can say this juxtaposition of good things and bad things always run through our dream. Then in our gallery, you will see strong contrast in content in order to attract the audience. All above is what we plan our devices would be to share a great gallery. In the tooling side, we would use Ai training, adobe creative suite, writing, paint and film maker etc to juxtapose, narrate and represent people’s dreams. Through AR, VR devices, immersive and interactive games to achieve amplification and optimize audience experience.
In terms of mood, due to the diversity and variability of dreams, we intend to better present my project through a variety of mood methods, which includes mysterious, curious etc. Most dreams are mysterious, and there are certain reasons and reasons for dreaming, and many people have doubts about these. Not everyone’s dreams are colored, research points out that most people’s dreams are black and white. This is due to our brain’s unknown function. But connecting to our DreamLab project, this point will guide us to a little dark color of the project. On the other hand, why is there a feeling of deja vu in the dream? This is because dreams are created through the memory network, which can inspire a sense of familiarity. We recognize a scene without explicitly remembering or understanding why. This proves the mystery of dreams from the other side. Meanwhile, we are all curious about dreams due to its mystery. This leads to the second part of our project. DreamLab can dig deep to study and share knowledge of dreams to satisfy people’s curiosity. Then you will see some incredible scenes and pictures in our case which will attract the audience and make them believe DreamLab is the best gallery. All these introductions are to well represent our dreamlab project and make people can be completely immersed in the expo world of dreams.
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