Dreamachine wins Lumen Prize for Immersive Environment
Published: 25 October 2023
Another prize for this exciting research project
We are very excited to announce that Dreamachine has won the Immersive Environment prize! Thank you to the judges for voting for us and to Lumen Art Projects for their support.
About Dreamachine
Dreamachine is an immersive experience designed to take audiences on a magical journey into their own minds. In a unique collaboration, our award winning interdisciplinary team of artists, composers, technologists, scientists and philosophers set out to explore and chart our inner worlds, with the aim of sparking insight, reflection and curiosity.
Dreamachine is inspired by a 1959 invention by Brion Gysin that used flickering light to create vivid illusions and explosions of colour in the mind of the viewer. Gysin had a pioneering vision for his invention to replace the television in every home in America: instead of passive consumers of mass-produced media, viewers of the Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences. He died before his vision could be realised, but the idea of using technology to reconnect us with our inner selves remains just as radical, and relevant, today.
Over sixty years after its original invention, Dreamachine has been radically reimagined as a powerful new kind of collective experience. Conjured entirely by light and music, this extraordinary multisensory journey combines flickering light with 360 degree spatial sound, providing an entirely new way to disconnect from everyday life, and reconnect with both yourself, and others. As the experience begins, a colourful, kaleidoscopic world will unfold behind your closed eyes, created by the power of your own the brain and completely personal to you.
First published: 25 October 2023