Luke Jerram Dream Director Journal
Luke Jerram, 2006 Clark Bursary recipient, documents the personal, artistic and technological challenges and breakthroughs during Dream Director - his unique experiment investigating the hidden realm of dreaming. Read about the testing, development and realisation of this ambitious piece of work that merges art, science and digital media.
Luke Jerram was awarded the 6th Clark Bursary in 2006 to develop the Dream Director, his unique experiment investigating the hidden realm of dreaming.
Dream Director was a continuation of Luke’s artistic explorations in sleep, sound and dreaming. A previous project called the Dream Concert, in which 120 participants took part in a mass sleep over whilst being played music from a specially composed score was the start of Luke’s investigation into whether dreams could be sculpted by external interventions.
Dream Director built on Luke’s experience of the Dream Concert and a year-long Arts Science AHRC research grant. Whereas the Dream Concert was a mass experiment with all participants sharing the same experience, Dream Director sought to use new technology to provide a unique experience tailored to the individual’s personal sleep rhythm.
The challenges for the Dream Director were both artistic and technical - from creating new software and hardware that could be adapted to enable more than one person at a time to have their dreams influenced - to developing the ideas into a full scale touring art installation.
Throughout the process of developing Dream Director Luke Jerram and his team, including technical support from Watershed, documented their problems and breakthroughs as they created a unique event, installation and exploration investigating the enigma of dreaming.
Follow the project and the team as they work to develop new sleep monitoring tools, scale them up to a multi-participant environment, design sleep pods and start testing the kit to influence their own dreams.
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