The Digital Dreamhacker: Crowdscoursing the dream imaginary

The project (2012) is a collaboration with Eleanor Dare - presented in ISEA 2013 Sydney

The digital Dreamhacker is an application that collects dream themes reported by individual dreamers and turns them into crowdsourced imagery. These dream visualisations are then uploaded onto the Social Web allowing for further commentary and collective interpretation. This way, we focus on the social context of dreams, creating visualisations that are neither a depiction of individual imaginings or a means of enhancing artistic skill, but a reframing of dreams within the technical and social imaginary, which forms our collective understandings and expectations of social life. We outline a research strategy in which social media, supported by methods that emanate from both critical design and network analysis, are innovative contexts for exploring the connection between technology, culture and our individual ‘imaginings’, including our dreams.

read our paper http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/9749