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| project name: artist name: artforms: science engagements: science partners: project description: Somnolent Fantasies - The Sleeper is an interactive installation that takes the participant on a journey through the stages of sleep. The participant interacts with the sleeper by setting the time on a clock interface. This triggers the stage of sleep the sleeper is experiencing at that time. The sleeper controls image movement via data recorded at the Centre for Sleep Research. The participant will experience the stages of sleep in the form of Quicktime movies, image, sound and text. Originating as a website, created in 1998 during the first part of an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Sleep Research, Somnolent Fantasies brings some of the dream world to the internet. Dreaming (REM sleep) occurs on average three times per night, whether you remember or not. Past and present are synthesised by dream experience. There are strong links between memory and emotion. Everyday we are reaching into the depths of our subconscious mind to let memory and imagination reveal our innermost secrets. I became interested in how the sleeper could physically control elements of a digitally simulated dream. Using EEG, EOG, ECG and EMG data recorded in the sleep lab, I am attempting to remap elements to create a fluidity and motion that is born of the electrical energy of the human body. The meat has control - subconscious control. Mind control. Somnolent Fantasies - The Sleeper is an ongoing exploration into the sleeping mind and how data generated in sleep can control elements of the "real world." links: | movies:  Screen shot of left monitor during Stage 3  Screen shot of right monitor during Stage 3  Screen shot of left monitor during Stage REM  Screen shot of right monitor during Stage REM |