HYPNAGOGIA city

A dream of a machine

We are after rare and unusual things.
Is it not our business to find them?

What do machines dream about? How do they imagine human life? This was always a subject that made me yearn. Longing to find out, to see, to experience. With the help of generative AI came new tools, ways and methods to achieve this goal.

So far, these have all been still images, wonderful recording moments of machine dreams.

Have you ever brought a photo from your dream? Our memory of it deceives us: it dresses the thought concepts in visions, which, however, are always changing in the moment of the dream.

An AI-generated image may capture a frame from the digital dream, but it is also misleading. Because the image in motion, the eternal change — that is what is true. True as dream.

With text2video models came the new possibilities to “capture” this change without having to freeze it. GEN-2 by RunwayML manages in an auratic way to immortalize this metamorphosis of the visual.

In HYPNAGOGIA, I used the same prompt over and over again (see quote above, plus some more details). The quote was created as part of my reMERZ project: training AI on my own essays, poems, and a range of public domain literature — new texts, ideas, concepts were born. These texts are not man-made, and maybe that’s why they bring additional inspiration to the machine.

I would like to welcome you to HYPNAGOGIA — the state between sleeping and waking — the machine, humans, all of us.

Good night, wake up.