exhibtion, festival, artblocks release

September, 2026 (ongoing)
Responsive Dreams 2025 by The Generative Art Museum
Minting on @artblocks_io

Twenty years ago, I defended my master’s thesis in the arts titled Digital Dreams. A short dialogue from the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, between SAL (HAL’s sister) and Dr. Chandra, a computer scientist, inspired this piece:

SAL 9000: “Will I dream?”
Dr. Chandra: “Of course you will. All intelligent creatures dream. Nobody knows why. Perhaps you will dream of HAL, just as I often do.”

From this point, I asked myself: if computers can dream, what would they dream of? In this work, I’m returning to the theme of dream archetypes, which I had briefly touched upon at the time of her thesis. On one hand, I’m tracing parallels between human archetypes from psychology and art history; on the other, I’m exploring typical computer algorithms, their analogues.