University Open Air: Dreams - The Final Frontier
How has big tech affected our dreamscape? What are the new archetypes of the technological age? Are you interested in seeing images from a dream scanner? A team at Kyoto University has made significant strides in decoding the visual content of dreams through reconstruction of visual imagery from the brain activity of sleeping subjects, but what is next? Join the conversation about the ethics of dream work and bring your dreams to the discussion.
Alisa Minyukova is a Russian born artist, researcher and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator of the Dream Mapping Project which works to bridge dream science with the creative process resulting in an ongoing series of collaborative art, film and performance works. Her drawings, film and mixed media installations explore world mythology and symbols of the collective unconscious.
Her research covers the topics of dreams, memories, liminality, emigration, heritage and the loss thereof and the exploration of the human condition by way of ancestral memory. Her current creative focus is on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - a collective memory of war - and faith healing in South African cultures.
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University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
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