The Dream Transfer Machine
Michael Jantzen
© 2015
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The Dream Transfer Machine is a conceptual art installation that proposes a fantasy technology that is able to transfer peoples dreams into a large container of water located at the center of the machine.
The installation also suggests that if other people drink this water, their lives might be influenced in unpredictable ways by the dream infused water.
The machine was designed to accommodate four people at once. They simply lay on the beds and fall asleep. When the machine detects (through various sensors) that a person is asleep, other sensors begin to record that persons dreams, and deposits them into the water contained in the large clear glass cylinder, mounted at the center of the machine above the beds.
Four white tubes lead from the base of the container of water to four gold colored faucets, where other people can drink the water with paper cups mounted just below the faucets. The implications of this odd interchange
are heighten by the idea of many peoples dreams being stored at once in the water. As a result, when other people drink the water, they are potentially influenced by a mix of many dreams at once.
Of course after drinking the mixed dream infused water, those people could sleep in the machine and have their dreams recorded and sent into the water. As a result, the complexity of the system would grow exponentially.
Status: Built
Location: Santa Fe NM
