LIQUID MEDIA

project: Controlled Dream Machine

For Liquid Media I am exploring and analyzing the symptoms (feedbacks) between the robot leg as a body and the unconscious as the leg’s dreams. The body is the symptom’s producer, it inners of anguish, lonely, guilty; and then it arises an interior process expressed by dreams.

This machine was not only created to proportionate the feeling of being awake inside the unconscious as an architectural hidden space; but also to transfer fluxes, revive the occult unconscious and transfer body life and intuitions inside this asleep space (unconscious). It also purposes to analyze and give birth to sleeping areas in a process similar to Freud’s Dreams Interpretations.

For Deleuze the unconscious functions as a factory of desire’s production, it is multiple and these multiplicities suppress the distinction between conscience and unconsciousness, nature and history, body and mind.

The feedbacks between body (robot) and dreams are:

NIGHTMARES: When the robot legs goes to nightmares it starts shaking its legs continuously. The anxiety gives maximum rise, the finger lights starts blinking as the eyes shakes when in REM (rapid eyes movements) sleep states. [1] It is the freedom of the repressions and the fears in a concentrated way.

TRAUMAS: Usually traumas lead to nightmares; the road between them is very close. When the robot is walking and finds in traumatic areas it shakes, the scar lights strongly blinks. It is full of guilt, embarrassment, fear and shame.

SENSATIONS: the sensation area generates all other spaces through feelings; this is the starting point, the robot starts its dream’s journey by walking through unconscious from here. “Sensation can be defined as our mental representation of our physiological signaling systems, and feeling as our mental cognizance, or processing, of the experience.” [2] The sensation area gives rise to the robot leg’s mechanisms of defense.
Examples: Acceptance, Annoyance, Anger, Appreciation, Compassion, Confidence, Contentment, Creativity, Curiosity, Depression, Excitement, Fear, Frustration, Gratitude, Guilt, Happiness, Helplessness, Interest, Jealousy, Joy, Love, OK-ness, Pleasure, Resentment, Sadness, Shame.

MEMORIES: when in the memories, the robot leg walks and stop, the stop means remembering period. Also, white lights turns on.

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS: This space unifies all the feelings, memories, of the entire human society of the world; it contains concepts as science, morality and religion. When the robot legs gets here it walks, stops and shakes.

REFERENCES:
[1] Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is the normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. Physiologically, certain neurons in the brain stem, known as REM sleep-on, are particularly active during REM sleep, and are probably responsible for its occurrence.
[2] Harland, Philip (2002), paper Part 2, Issue 57, HOW THE BRAIN FEELS Emotion and Cognition in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy, First published in Rapport, UK.

Controlled Dream Machine

The interconnection made with Puredata + Arduino

The behaviours of the robot was recorded using a Midi keyboard

The Puredata interface