S Y N T H E S I S
Title
of project: Controlled
Dream Machine
Name
of student and any collaborators:
Anaisa
Franco (idea and concepts) and Alexandre Vicente (Robotic conception and
programming).
Short
statement on your current practice:
The
purposes of the project are to integrate brain, body and unconscious
environment in one system using neurally-controlled data that metaphors the
formation of the unconscious and the memory, this data is the tracing memory of
the communication between thousand of neuron cells living in a cultured
electronic circuit in a lab; to bring life, thoughts, emotions and dreams to a
robot leg as if has itÕs own life and imaginary world; analyze and reflect
about humanÕs behaviors between consciousness and unconscious; and metaphors on
the formation of the self, humanity history and collective unconscious of
humanity reflecting in all the knowledge created for group minds in a growing
process.
Description
of proposed project:
Controlled
Dream Machine is
an installation that uses data from neuron chipÕs to control the dreams and the
behaviors of a robot legs. The dreams are expressed by animations projected in
front of the robot legs. The robot legs simulate the physical body of a person
dreaming, the consciousness and the animations simulate the unconscious mind in
the form of a dream. The legs are connected to the unconscious through the
artificial relation of feedback. The behavior of the robot leg depends on which
part of the unconscious it is, such as traumas, nightmares, sensations,
memories and collective unconscious. They are constantly getting feedback from
each other. Different data behaviors of neuron chips will control the robot
legs in her dreaming process.
The purpose of this project is to bring
life, thoughts, emotions and dreams to a robot leg as if has itÕs own life and
imaginary world and to analyze and reflect in the humanÕs behaviors between
consciousness (symptoms of the body) and unconscious (mind and dreams);
reflecting in the entire formation of the self and humanity history.
Technical
description and production process:
Production
Plan:
the
project has been develop since October 2006, it will be concluded in october
2007.
To
finalize the development of the project in three months from June to September
2007 will be necessary to divide the work into 4 parts, the divided parts will
be developed simultaneously:
1) Build the robot: mechanics and
electronics (2 month):
MECHANICS:
Each leg will have two motors (GEARBOX AND MOTOR 148:1 - 4.5 TO 15V RC http://www.rapidonline.com/netalogue/specs/37-1238e.pdf)
I
am using also a bridge to run the motor: L6203 FULL BRIDGE DRIVER
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/L/6/2/0/L6203.shtml
The
legs will be built with aluminum tubes and aluminum pieces. See the pictures.
ELECTRONICS:
The robot legs will be programmed with Arduino board http://www.arduino.cc/.
Program 5 different behaviors to the robot. The digital print boards and
the circuit board is designed with the software Labcenter electronics: ISIS
professional and PROTEUS 6 Professional.
 |
 |
 |
 |
2) Working in the animation, 5 short
animations (during the 3 months)
The
animations are the dreams of the robot Leg and they are made by drawings mixed
with videos. Will be .mov files. I will use Adobe After Effects 7 to
produce.
I will use the free software Puredata to connect the animations
with the Arduino Board (feedback).
See the
example of the animations. Click here.
3) Programming of interconnection
the neuron chips data with the robot and with the animation (1 week)
I will
do this part when the robot and the animations will be finished. The animations
will work in Puredata, which will be connected to Arduino. Then, I will
program the data of the neuron chips into the Arduino Board. See the neuron
chips data here: (http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/groups/potter/research.html)
4) Model (robot legs skin). To be
the skin of the legs I am using a plastic mannequinÕs legs.
Technical
details (hardware and software):
Robot
Legs: the Robot
Legs mechanisms are as in the drawing diagram.
The Robot Legs will be
programmed with Arduino board.
Animations: The animations are the dreams of
the robot Leg and they are made by drawings mixed with videos. Will be .mov
files.
I will use Max Puredata to connect the animations with the Arduino
Board (feedback).
Neuron
Chips data: Will
be programmed with Arduino Board interconnected to Max Msp. (feedbacks)
The
robot leg has 5 behaviors (symptoms). These symptoms will be reveled depending
in which part of the unconscious the leg is dreaming.
The project has been realized since October 2006 and it will be finished in September 2007.
See Plan production for individual timeline.
From may to September I will be finalizing the thesis and the project.
May and June: I will be in Media Lab Madrid developing the project with a team of professionals; The project was selected to be part of Interactivos program in Media Lab Madrid; it will be exhibited there after finished.
July, August and September: Ill do the animations. It is missing the nightmares and all transpassages; also Ill write and read for thesis completion.
Brief
description of conceptual motivation:
The
motivations to develop the project were the wish to integrate brain, body and
unconscious in one system using the concepts of consciousness and unconscious
in psychoanalyses and philosophy.
Through
these readings and analyses was written 3 concepts: The machine as a dream
producer, Consciousness and the body and The legÕs unconscious.
The machine as a dream producer
The system created is analysing the entire formation
of the self. It is questioning and reflecting the process someone passes
through generating an unconscious mind; of acquiring a personal history,
feelings, emotions, desires and also on the way people build their own self.
The answers to many questions are found in the expression of the unconscious
mind, mainly because it is the hidden, repressed and a deeper expression of the
self. Through analyzing dreams we can reach places where secrets reside, where
repression lies and explore the locked inaccessible spaces that is the key
point of the formation of the self, where people are sculpting their bodies and
minds. ÒFor Freud, the unconscious was a depository for socially unacceptable
ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the
mechanism of psychological repression. He developed the idea that there were layers to human
consciousness: the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. He thought that
certain psychic events take place "below the surface", or in the
unconscious mind. A good example is dreaming, which Freud called the
"royal road to the unconscious". Sigmund Freud says that the
unconscious is a submerged but vast portion of the mind. In his view, the
unconscious was composed of the id, which accounts for instinctual drives, acts
as the motivating force in human behaviour, and contains desires and wishes
that the individual hide or represses from conscious recognition; and part of
the superego, the system that acts to restrain and control
id impulses.Ó [1]
I believe that our body and mind are been sculptured,
reshaped constantly according to the key points of the personal life history.
The ingredients can be moments, people, actions, cities and energies that
materialises in your individual shape been constantly reshaped. Obviously,
people try to delete the embarrassing parts of their histories, tending to
ignore them because they are afraid. But it does not get deleted; everything
goes to the unconscious and creates a black hole inside our bodies. Then, these embarrassing repressed
black messy hole and the behaviours, the symptoms that it is generating in the
body are the main purpose of the creation of this System called ÒControlled
Dream MachineÓ. The system is constantly expressing their unconscious and
receiving feedbacks, the symptoms of her body. Mainly, the system can be
described as a dreaming robot Legs exchanging behaviours with her unconscious
mind expressed through animations. First I found the necessity to build a physical object,
the body (robot legs). Then, as if I give birth to it, constructing a place and
a history. After, as if can generate memories and a mind full of its own
dreams.
Consciousness
and the body
The kinetic sculpture robot legs are a metaphor of the
physical body of someone dreaming, the state of consciousness. Starting from the principle that
first I need to give birth to a body, then proportionate it a history,
environment and emotions. Then, it can develop its unconscious, behaviors and
shapes according to its life history.
But who
is controlling the system? Who is the head of the system? Millions of live
neuron cells in a chip are the working machines of the process. They are very
primitive neurons cells of and egg trying to learn and to grow in collective,
this collective is sending data to control the dream of the leg robot. It keeps
working and trying to generate memories from equal numbers, as if it was the
collective unconscious of human history.
In this
system the robot legs are exchanging symptoms with her mind through behaviors
(feedbacks). Its behaviors depend on what kind of dream the leg dreams and
witch area of the dreams the legs are. Those spaces are constantly calling
chemical sensations called symptoms such as neuroses, bipolar, anxious, fear,
nervous, anger, happiness, calm and so on.
The body (robot legs) reacts like a puppet to the
unconscious. The consciousness is only the recording surface of the self.
ÒFreud says that the Conflict between conscious and unconscious impulses are
said to give rise to anxiety, then to defence mechanisms, which counteract this
anxiety. To tap the unconscious, Freud used a variety of techniques, including
hypnosis, free association, and dream interpretation. Conscious cognitive
processes, such as thinking, are performed by the ego and part of the superego.
Freud used the idea of the unconscious in order to explain certain kinds of
neurotic behaviours.Ó[2]
How can
someone dream without a body to be in? How can someone think and live without a
body to be in? I found the body been the consciousness of the process.
Not only
do the virtual worlds need a body, a head to develop, but also the dream space
needs a body to be in, as a living storage system.
Inside
dreams, it seems that our body is floating, feels like it has a different shape
and density. Sometimes we can be without the body, and the sensation is that we
are only a narrative that flows like waves. Also, the sensation in dream space
is that our bodies are not centered in any one place, neither in conscious nor
in unconscious. It seems that I am neither a body nor a mind; I am floating in
between boundaries. Like a very sensitive connected line filled of energy and
organic materials, exchanging sensations in an enormous circuit. The body
presence is free of interpretation; perhaps it depends on the energy you are
carrying in the process. The leg robot as a body is a metaphor of this circuit.
In the
hidden and repressed part of our psyche lies the vast and unexplored reality of
our dreams. It is producing projections of strange movies and images,
fragmented narrative spectacles of our fantasies, illusions and desires, only
partially remembered. The movie Director Atom Egoyan once said about the dreams
ÒThose strange nocturnal movies we project on some interior cranial screen are
presented in a certain film languageÓ. [3]
The art
exhibition Videodreams, Between the cinematic and the theatrical, the curators was Peter Pakesch
and Adam Budak, which I have found works related to dreams, it was showing
artists such as Aernout Mik, Mark Lewis, Rodney Graham, Joan Jonas, Katarzyna
Kozyra, Fabienne Audeoud, Judy Radul, Tony Ousler, Arthur Zmijewski, Sharon
Lockhart, among others. The artist Peter Cook described his project called
Shadow house (1980): ÒWe are inspired by the notion that spaces need not be
defined by walls. Lines needs not be boundaries. Objects seem may be both
illusory and tangible. Or that an elusive object might be related to something
that is tangible and tactile, but not too obviously.Ó [4]
Why am I
using a robot Leg? I am using a robot leg in the system to make an analogy to
the entire world system as a machine. Deleuze says, ÒUnder the skin the body is
an over-heated factoryÓ [5]. The planets control the earth as the unconscious controls
our sensations. Outside happenings are guiding inside behaviors of the body.
Everything is connected. The system of the world made us a machine to produce
and consume, directed to consume and to swallow fake consciousness. The system Controlled
Dream Machine is
the obscure hidden intangible part of the nature system. It uses the robot legs
body as storage to return the forgotten and the repressed.
References
in cybernetics present an analogy to the system created as a
parallelism of the entire formation of the self by analysing the behaviours
(feedbacks) generated in the body that come from the unconscious. ÒCybernetics
was a term coined by American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), it
offers a new approach to the study of the human mind and behaviour, based on a
comparative study of the electrical circuits of the nervous system and those in
the highly complex mechanical brains in the gigantic electronic calculating
machines. In other words, cybernetics attempts to find the common elements in
the functioning of automatic machines and of the human nervous system, and to
develop a theory, which will cover the entire field of control and
communication in machines and living organisms. The construction of more and
more complex mechanisms actually is bringing us closer to an understanding of
how the brain itself operates.Ó [6]. Also,
cybernetics is typically involving
regulatory feedback in living
organisms, machines and organisations, as well as their combinations. For
example, in sociotechnical systems, it includes the study of
computer-controlled machines such as automata and robots. [7] In reality our mind is trying to
maintain an equilibrium and balance all the time. This reflects the way the
system of the world was created and organized by human society. But it is
obvious that is not possible to find a rigid equilibrium in reality, because we
are experiencing chaos without rigid preventions and controls. In the dreams we
forgot the existence of this equilibrium and balance, there are only residues
of that.
The
system is showed by an omnipresent mechanism of outside (robot leg body) and
inside (her dreams), reflecting the behaviors, feedbacks between this relation
consciousness-unconscious, exploring the mental levels of the human psyche. As
a result of this interconnection, the work atmosphere is not only an
estrangement between awakening state, somnambulant drive and REM (Rapid Eye
Movement), but also it is marked by a fragile tension involving neurosis
symptoms behaviors coming from the body of the robot legs passing through the
dreams. The Robot Legs is a kinetic sculpture in a fragmented body; she is
performing a lonely alive neurotic robot Legs in a semi-conscious process of
searching for identity in a dream state process.
The
legÕs unconscious.
We are living inside a world, experimenting within it.
The world enters us and then our unconscious is produced. The real world is
very restricted; it is full of rules, physicality, narratives, linearity, among
others barriers. The unconscious is full of references from the real world, but
in dreams it appears without sequence in a bowl mixed with everything you have
absolved.
The dreams proportionate an immersion in an
environment that ignores all restrictions; everything becomes possible. It
generates an experience of a new world inside the old world. It is a randomness
trip; it is like programming that has its own way, a trip without directions,
very sensorial and emotional. When dreaming we have the notion of the world,
life and sensations; however, it is involuntary. We get immersed in an obscure
neural network without control in a process full of emotion, sensation, and
feelings.
The unconscious is like a disturbed and mysterious net
and we canÕt control it, it just flows. It is a pure manifestation of the self,
an individual trip through our insides. Nobody is able to manipulate your
dreaming process; it is extremely individual and unique, it is the emotional
expression of our own history in a road through a lonely trip inside us.
The neurons are working in a neural network; they are
catching all the time references from the sensations, memories and histories of
the past. Through their connections they are conceptualizing new formats for
the future. The future is all connected with the past; the existence, the
generation of the future depends on the past happenings. It is connected in a
chain of moments, like a connected machine. The neural network works as a chain,
a connection between the future and the past, such as the consciousness and the
unconscious, the body and the mind.
The collective unconscious is a concept to describe
the residue of all the energy and history of the world in a population size,
which you unconsciously ingest inside yourself, such as religions, politics,
rules, patriarchy, media and so on.
All the people are involved together in a repression situation, called
alienation, mediocrity. The world is composed of bad and good things, but each
person absolves themselves from different things. The term collective unconscious
was first introduced by Carl Gustav Jung in 1916. ÒIn Jungian psychology, a part of
the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humankind, that is
the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science,
religion, and moralityÓ [8]
The way the unconscious is modelled, solidificated is
similar to the life. It just gets what they want, so each unconscious space is
unique as each city, each person of the world. Not only the journey is always
unique but also the choices. It is the constant development of new forms of
representation and visuals. The dreams happen as a surreal movie in a rhizoidal
way, it is deeply rich of meanings.
The
unconscious is intricately, connected to memory, it is a memorial conception
that happens with people, objects and spaces, being the ground and being
capable to conserve and identify them. The unconscious deals not only with
people and objects but also with desires, maps and routes. The cartographical
conception is very different from the archeological conception. In the
archeological there is a progression, a development and origin, where the
memories is being registered. In contrast, the maps, the cartographies, there is
no origin, beginning; it is about to evaluate the changes of the routes,
displacements covered. Each map is not only an inversion of the meaning, but
also a difference of nature. For Deleuze the unconscious is as
a machine producing desires in an effervescent bow without absence, in excess. The unconscious ignores people, it
is a production machine, where it produces flows and cuts; the production is
always between people, objects and things. The production happens in the
environment between objects, familiar relations, non familiar relations,
things, of the desire production that we feel the life and the interrogation of
what is life. To Deleuze, the unconscious is orphan; it produces itself in the
breast of the identity of the nature and the man. To Guatarri, the lapses,
dreams, traumas, symptoms are like a bird that beat with the beak in a glass
window. Is not about to interpret
them, but to detect their trajectories to see if there is indicative rescues of
new universes of references, being susceptible to reverse a situation. [09]
The
expression of the Leg robotÕs unconscious in the piece Controlled Dream
Machine is made
by an animation mixed with videos in a sort of fragmented narratives episodes.
The film appears as a unique surreal construction of delirious, appearances,
deconstructions and illusions, achieving the sense of unreality, impossibility,
by manipulating the perception of space, geometry, architecture; also,
emphasizing the fragmented layering of images as projections of dreams and desires,
immersed and produced by the mind of this robot Leg being.
The
system is showed by an omnipresent mechanism of outside (robot leg body) and
inside (her dreams), reflecting the behaviors, feedbacks between this relation
the consciousness-unconscious, exploring the mental levels of the human psyche.
As a result of this interconnection, the work atmosphere is not only an
estrangement between awakening state, somnambulant drive and REM, but also it
is marked by a fragile tension involving neurosis symptoms behaviors coming
from the body of the robot leg passing through the dreams. The Robot Leg is a
kinetic sculpture in a fragmented body; she is performing a lonely alive
neurotic robot Leg in a semi-conscious process of searching for identity in a
dream state process.
The robot
leg expresses five mainly important dreamÕs spaces inside her mind that is its
Sensations, Memories, Collective unconscious, Traumas and Nightmares.
All of
these spaces are hooked through Transpassages and they are all immersed into another.
Transpassages is a term used by Deleuze that says or meansÉ.. These
transpassages symbolizes the labyrinth passages of space or transportation of
the dreams sequences, the passages between the sensations stages. When dreaming
we are guiding by sensations in the dream body, it leads us to referenced
spaces of desires, memories, traumas, etc. All these feelings are connected and
sometimes they are experimenting each otherÕs at the same time. For example, in a dream if you deal in
a traumatic situation, the road to nightmares is very close and it will affect
the conscious of your body, giving rise to anxiety, fear, neurosis, obsessions,
depressions, hysteria and so on. Sensations are like the avatar of the mind and
the body system, being the primordial feedback from everything, also being the
generator departure point to build the actions and the space.
The
memories is the huge part of the unconscious, everything is connected to the
memories. The memory has the ability to retain and recall past states of
consciousness. Memories bring symptoms to the body by recalling forgotten and
repressed traumas. The Leg robot are floating in the process of getting a
trauma, repressing it, trying to forget, (it is kept under lock and key inside
the unconscious), after then, it generates a symptom in the legs body in
formats of hysterical behaviors, the legs is remembering everything to finally
be healed. ÒAs FreudÕs model of heal: trauma / repression / forgetting /
symptom / remembering / healing. Freud said, hysterics suffer mainly from
reminiscencesÓ. [10]
The leg
robot is dreaming the environments ÒLocked memoriesÓ and the ÒConnected
MemoriesÓ. In Locked memories she is calling all the lost memories of the
cellÕs body since it grown up until her old days, the process of being someone,
it is all happening inside a glass head locked by a key. The Connected Memories are exchanging
all the remembering, thoughts the leg had with very important people. It is
exchanging affections, caress, love, affects; the process is done by two glass
heads looking each other faces. ÒEugen Tarnow suggests that dreams are ever
present excitations of long term
memory,
even during waking life. The strangeness of dreams is due to the format of
long-term memory, reminiscent of the Penfield & RasmussenÕs findings that
electrical excitations of the cortex give rise to experiences similar
to dreams. During waking life an executive function interprets long term memory
consistent with reality checking. Tarnow's theory is a reworking of Freud's
theory of dreams in which Freud's Unconscious is replaced with the long term memory system and Freud's ÒDream WorkÓ describes the structure
of long term
memoryÓ.
In psychology long-term memory is the storage of information indefinitely so
that it can be used again and again at a later time. Long-term memory (LTM) is memory,
stored as meaning, that can last as little as 30 seconds or as long as decades.
It differs structurally and functionally from working memory or short-term
memory,
which ostensibly stores items for only around 30 seconds. [11]
The
collective unconscious environment is fully immersed of eternal sensations and
humankindÕs memory that is passed through generations by generations to the
individual body, immersed into the genetic DNA of the individual as the history
of the human evolution. On the Psychology of the Unconscious, Jung says that
ÒIt seems to me that the origin [of the archetypes] can only be explained by
assuming them to be deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of
humanityÓ [12]
I am
trying to build the robot Leg dreams as I look to my self. According to my
daily process of writing and drawing dreams, I perceive that my unconscious
reveals many symbols that are common almost everyday. Symbols such as the
water, keys, waves, family, friends, farm, height, airplanes, day rescues, and
so on. The water is presented in almost all of the dreams. I hook the water
with emotions. Also family and friends are very much observed; it comes across
important memories. These memories can sometimes follow to traumas and
obviously the road between traumas and nightmares are very close.
Adventures
are very present and active. Theses adventures are always corrupting the limits
of the physical principles of the world such as gravity, materiality, death,
pain, and so on. The interesting point is that all the symbols can always
exchange between them, especially people, sizes and meanings of everything.
That is why the unconscious is so abstract, surreal, mysterious, rich and full
of interpretations. Sometimes, the symbols inside the dreams can have all the
meanings you need to understand a situation or reverse a problem. Then, this
can take you into a new step or floor.
References:
[1] http://www.answers.com/topic/unconscious
[2] http://www.answers.com/topic/unconscious
[3] Adam Budak (2004), Videodreams
Catalogue, German:Kunsthaus Graz, p. 12
[4] Peter Cook (2004), Videodreams catalogue, German:Kunsthaus Graz, p.10
[5] Gilles
Deleuze and FŽlix Guattari, (1990), ÔThe Desiring MachinesÕ in Anti-Oedipus:
Capitalism and Schizophrenia, (first as LÕAnti-Oedipe in 1972) trans. Robert
Hurley et al, London: Athlone, p. 3
[6] The American Heritage
Dictionary
[7] Norbert Wiener (2000),
Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948),
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
[8] The American Heritage Dictionaries
http://www.answers.com/topic/collective-unconscious
Jung,
Carl Gustav (1990), The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Trans. R. F.
C. Hull. Bollingen Series: Princeton University Press
Jung,
Carl Gustav (1916), The structure of the unconscious, Coll. works, vol. VII, London: Routledge
& Kegan Pau
[9] Deleuze, Gilles (1987), A
thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press, p.96
[10] Sigmund Freud (1895), Studies on Hysteria, London: Penguin Books, p. 7.
[11] Tarnow, E. (2003) Dreams And Memory May Be Related
Neuro-Psychoanalysis, Thompson, B.C. p. 177-182
[12] Jung,
Carl Gustav (1919), Psychology of the Unconscious, London : Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner, p.69)
Possible
location for the project:
The project is an interactive installation; it can be exhibited at any art places, such as galleries, Media Centers and so on.
Budget:
ROBOT:
4 Motors
= 72 pounds
Electronic
components (bridges and components) = 20 pounds
Aluminum
tubes = 20 pounds
2 Power
supplies = 200 pounds
Mannequin
legs = 40 pounds
TOTAL =
352 pounds
Proposed
thesis title:
Controlled
Dream Machine
Proportion
of written/practical element:
Written:
25%
Practical:
75%
Initial
bibliography for thesis:
Videodreams
catalogue, German:Kunsthaus Graz
Gilles Deleuze and
FŽlix Guattari, (1990), ÔThe Desiring MachinesÕ in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia, (first as LÕAnti-Oedipe in 1972) trans. Robert Hurley et al,
London: Athlone
The American Heritage
Dictionary
Norbert Wiener (2000), Cybernetics: or Control and
Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Jung,
Carl Gustav (1990), The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Trans. R. F.
C. Hull. Bollingen Series: Princeton University Press
Jung,
Carl Gustav (1916), The structure of the unconscious, Coll. works, vol. VII, London: Routledge
& Kegan Pau
Deleuze, Gilles (1987), A
thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press
Sigmund Freud (1895), Studies on Hysteria, London: Penguin Books
Tarnow,
E. (2003), Dreams And Memory May Be Related Neuro-Psychoanalysis, Thompson,
B.C.
Jung,
Carl Gustav (1919), Psychology of the Unconscious, London : Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner
Wilson,
Stephen (2002), Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and
Technology, San Francisco: MIT Press/Leonardo Books
Short
description/abstract of thesis:
The
thesis will be about the installation Controlled Dream Machine and all the relevant
documentation. Controlled Dream Machine is
an installation that uses data from neuron chipÕs to control the dreams and the
behaviours of a robot legs. The dreams are expressed by animations projected in
front of the robot legs. The
robot legs simulate the physical body of a person dreaming, the consciousness
and the animations simulate the unconscious mind in the form of a dream. The
legs are connected to the unconscious through the artificial relation of
feedback. The behavior of the robot leg depends on which part of the unconscious
it is, such as traumas, nightmares, sensations, memories and collective
unconscious. They are constantly getting feedback from each other. Different
data behaviors of neuron chips will control the robot legs in her dreaming
process.
The
purpose of this project is to bring life, thoughts, emotions and
dreams to a robot leg as if has itÕs own life and imaginary world and to
analyse and reflect in the humanÕs behaviours between consciousness (symptoms
of the body) and unconscious (mind and dreams); reflecting in the entire
formation of the self and humanity history.
What
is the research question you pose?
What is
happening in the space between consciousness and unconscious? Is it possible to
have control on both at the same time?