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The Data Narrative;

Slow wave dreaming

When we dream, our brains create dream waves.

This is called ‘Slow wave dreaming’. Dream

experiences are more likely to occur when

dream waves are small and shallow, particularly

in central and posterior regions of the brain. The

visualization represents this data by using colour

and depth of wave, which is weaved into the net.

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Dream Fishing

Hana Wensley

Dream Fishing is a Data Visualisation of the slow waves that occur in the brain

while sleeping. The textile driven, visual object evokes the movements and shape

of the slow waves, which occur in Non REM sleep, where most recently has been

discovered to be of high activity. The ebbs and flows of the dream waves, which

are woven into the net, represent the brain and the areas that hold the most

activity. To accompany the translational object, is a book, which methodically

elaborates on the data narrative and key. Using scientific data, a visual translation

using yarn and fishing net materials has been made to represent the intricate

details in dream data. The net is a metaphorical play on dream catching, the idea

that one-day we will be able to record and capture our dreams, but for now, it is

purely scientific.

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The idea of dreaming becoming real and tangible is uncomfortable and obtrusive

to some. The act of dreaming has a sense of environment that operates without

self-explanation, it operates without bearing legitimacy on an underlying philosophical

or ideological order. Dreaming remains a personal and otherworldly

task, which no one can envisage unless they are let in, yet it can have a large

physical impact on our bodies. Perplexing behaviour that can only be grasped to

a point, by few. Can we know more about these processes in the future or is it

purely intangible?

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Amazing work by Ben!

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Wind Map

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Beautiful!

Final Project: Exhibition Day

I projected my finished work onto a wall in a little dark room. The darkness worked really well with the projection, as the white from the dots was highlighted

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Glimpse of the brain; reflections on my Dream Data project

Dreaming, a cognitive function that we

perform, sometimes, from eve to eve. Although

dreaming has been said to be a byproduct of

sleep, it can help to increase positive mood and

aid resolution with conflicting emotions that

occur during the day. Perplexing behavior that

can only be grasped to a point, by few. Scientifically,

data shows movement and processes that

indicate dreams, a fairly new development in

understanding neurological systems and its

outputs.

To understand the purpose and outcomes of this

exploration, research into processes of brain

functions was empirical to the visualization and

assimilation of the project developments. The

commentary on dream data and its possibilities

are recurrent within conversations around AI

developments, privacy and society. While it can

pose a question of vulnerability within ourselves

to explore this kind of data recording, it

could also be a place of near learning

and connectivity.

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Luca Giordano - Dreaming of soloman

Baroque era dream visualisation

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Interesting Article to understand thought processes and what is currently being explored in this field.

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The artwork, ‘Fall of

the House of Usher’ is based on Edgar Allen

Poe’s story which was made into a film in 1926.

The neural net picks up images of the film, then

rather than applying a filter to the output image,

it creates an entirely new image. A short animation

has been created with the output images.

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The Dreaming Data

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Using illustrator to create hypothetical visualisations. 

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“The short animations are the film that is fictionalizing itself. We have a

fictional protagonist, Ilya, who is being re-fictionalized by dreaming

activities he doesn’t do. He’s driving a motorcycle with his eyes closed.

And that never happened. But we can imagine it and therefore it did

happen – to some extent.”

- Metahaven, 2018

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A film by metahaven which has been thought provoking to my research on dream data.

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Process of Weaving 

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Domestic Data Streamers