hypnagogia

2025
2025
2024
2024
2023
2021
2020
2018
2018

installation
installation + performance
installation + performance
lecture perforrmance
performance
multimedia performance
music performance
virtual reality
data performance

Info

Immersive installation, performance, video piece and book.

This immersive installation, performance, and video piece illustrates this hypnagogic duality. Utilizing EEG brainwave sensors, I capture an objective metric of my brainwave processes and translate this data into an orchestrated light sequence; a symbol of the conscious, objective brain activity. As the installation glows, I reveal my subconscious by reading aloud my dreams. The creation is a harmonious interaction between these mindstates.

Hypnagogia is the liminal state between consciousness and dream, a transitional flow that occurs within the mind. And consciousness in its wholeness is a rich continuum.

From 2012 - 2018, I recorded my dreams. Dreams live deeply within our soul, a memory from a past life, a prophetic vision for the future, a portal to an alternative universe. From writing down these dreams, patterns and symbols emerge.

Technology

The code I used for this installation can be found here: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/560706

This piece was shown as solo show in conjunction with UCLA Art|Sci and at Authentication Error [Solved] 2018.