Begin by tagging your dream, entering keywords into the Dreamlines website as if you were bookmarking the dream at del.icio.us for later reference. Dreamlines then searches the web for related images, “and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.” The output is your unique visual reading, a visual impression of the folksonomy of the networked dreamscape of humanity.

The images are gorgeous. And there’s a feeling that it’s partially yours, as much as you are part of the collective dream landscape of humanity as it has manifest itself onto the internet.

The subject of this work is, many times, multiplicity. That of the particles in endless movement, that of the vast contents of the Internet, that of the users and the dreams they wish to dream.

All this multiplicities get together on the verge of chaos, on a process that mixes randomness and strict but complex logics, very much alike the processes that take place in our heads. Even when we rest. (Read more from Dreamlines: About)

Dreamlines is a Java applet, and it’s very slow. As is often the case, patience and perseverance pays off. Enjoy.

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