Internet Dreaming

Leonardo Solaas has put together a website where a visitor can enter a word indicating which subject he/she would like to see in an internet dream. The site then presents images (the dream). Solaas explains it in his artist's statement: "The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association. . . . . Who is dreaming? The user, or the Internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken form the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms. The subject of this work is, many times, multiplicity. That of the particles in endless movement, that of the vast contents of the Internet, that of the users and the dreams they wish to dream." To see your own internet dream, visit Dreamlines. Via Quotidian Hell.