Activities

Dream Machine Series

Dream Visualization

Dream Visualization workshop delves into the fascinating world of dream visualization through brainwave signals. Participants will explore the neuroscientific basis of brainwave production, gaining insights into how the brain generates these electrical patterns. Hands-on experience with EEG devices will allow participants to capture and analyze their own brainwave activity, including the unique patterns associated with dreaming. This raw data will then be channeled into TouchDesigner, a powerful visual programming software, where participants will learn to translate real-time EEG signals into dynamic and captivating visual representations of their dream states. This unique fusion of neuroscience, technology, and art empowers participants to create their own “dream machines,” offering a tangible and artistic exploration of the subconscious mind.

Getting Start with Touchdesigner
Workshop: Dream Visualization
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17P908dCVfWtxAFvdurVxhTUbhAFblMEu1EuIx3ki1Uw/edit?tab=t.0

Touch designer files
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Bgx6IZVyITjXQfNi5i4eOyGoh91xcHO/view?usp=sharing

CGSB ARTIST TALK : The Pursuit to understand Life and Bioaesthetic through an Artistic Research & Creation
Artist: Henry Tan
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time:  2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Experimental Research Building (C1)-045

Join us for an exciting talk entitled “The Pursuit to understand Life and Bioaesthetic through an Artistic Research & Creation” by CGSB’s Artist-in-Residence, Henry Tan. Explore the boundaries between life and simulation as Henry investigates how emerging technologies like synthetic biology, mixed reality, brain stimulation, and artificial intelligence blur the lines between the real and the simulated. His work delves into how life adapts and negotiates with a constantly changing environment, shaped by factors like climate change, geopolitics, and geoeconomics. By using sleep as a prism to understand and investigate life, society, culture, and technology, he creates installations, performances, songs, and architecture for people to rest and reimagine their perceptions through sleep and dreams.

Bio: Henry, member of FREAK Lab Thailand, metaPhorest Japan, and 2024 resident artist at CGSB, NYUAD, Henry explores the boundaries between life and simulation. He investigates how
emerging technologies like synthetic biology, mixed reality, brain stimulation, and artificial intelligence blur the lines between the real and the simulated. His work delves into how life
adapts and negotiates with a constantly changing environment, shaped by factors like climate change, geopolitics, and geoeconomics. Henry uses sleep as a prism to understand and
investigate life, society, culture, and technology. He creates installations, performances, songs, and architecture for people to rest and reimagine their perceptions through sleep and dreams.

His past projects include, 24hr Sleep Experiment: Hibernation into the mycelium world 2023, The Lantern 2023, Artist residency at The Sociability of Sleeps 2021-2023, Semi-conductor Dream 2023, Young Eel 2019.

His upcoming projects include: 1. Pillars of Creation, 2. Sleep Is A Little Rest, Death Is A Little Growth, 3. How to Explain Sleep to a Robot Cock?