What does the future of dreaming look like when advertisements from corporate and state actors enter our subconscious realm? The ReVerie AI system reflects on the concerning misuse of dream technology by inviting participants to relive their dream experiences and develop new understandings about their waking lives. In the interactive AI installation, audiences enter a ritual of whispering their dream objects. A generative diffusion AI model then manifests the dream objects in the shared immersive space in real time, inviting individuals to re-experience dreams and reclaim agency over their subconscious narratives.
ReVerie / Pinyao Liu, Keon Ju Lee, Photo: Florian Voggeneder
ReVerie / Pinyao Liu, Keon Ju Lee, Photo: Florian Voggeneder
In collaboration with dream scientists, the ReVerie system explores the transformative potential of the “Dream Reliving” method while making the hidden landscape of dreams visible. By advocating for an empowering approach towards dreaming through human-AI collaboration, ReVerie endeavors to steer society away from a future where dreams are commodified and weaponized.
Bios
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Keon Ju Lee
KR
Keon Ju Maverick Lee is a musician and artist-researcher. He is a music composer and percussionist/drummer. As of 2021, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in research-creation of rhythmic performance/production/visual artwork with musical agents. For his main research, he is working on generative music and musical agents assisting percussive and drumming performance.
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Photo: Patrick MünnichPinyao Liu
CN
Pinyao Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Linz, Austria and Vancouver, Canada. He was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Visual Computing Group (VCG). His art practice and research explore generative AI and immersive technology for altered states of consciousness and transformative experiences. His artistic research has been published in the Leonardo Journal by MIT Press and The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Credits
Concept and System Implementation: Pinyao Liu
Generative Music: Keon Ju Lee
Scientific Research: Pinyao Liu (IT:U), Alexandra Kitson (Simon Fraser University), Claudia Picard-Deland, Michelle Carr (Dream and Nightmare Lab, University of Montreal), Sijia Liu, Ray LC (City University Hong Kong), Chen Zhu-Tian (Harvard University)
This work was initiated as part of the FOUNDING LAB program at IT:U and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (2023-2024). The FOUNDING LAB is realized as a Public Partnership between Ars Electronica GmbH and Co KG and the Institute of Digital Sciences (IT:U), Austria and financed through funds from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
