Dream Generator

The Dream Generator is an interactive video project that is meant to explore perception of time and memory through dreams. I was particularly struck by Robert Stickgold's dream studies, in which he concludes that dreaming is the mind's way of making free associations between our different memories.

I filmed thoughtful, personal moments of my typical day and then wrote a program that randomly overlays these different videos in openFrameworks. I then created an Arduino controller that allows a viewer to alter the color, speed and opacity of the videos, thus creating their own visual mash-up or "dream" from my memories.

Music is by Broken Social Scene.