APLYSIA
Mindscapes, a sequence where you fall and a vivid dream about sequoias
An exploration of lucid dreams and artificial memories, produced with generative artificial intelligence tools.
An immersive dream by María Laura Ruggiero.
Immersion Design and Worldbuilding AI: María Laura Ruggiero.
Original Music and Sound Design: Nait Saves, aka Sofía L. Pugno.
Production by SeirenFilms.
Aplypsia is the 2023 winner of the Fundación Williams Creative Grant, and AMPLIFY D.A.I joint initiative from British Council Argentina, Artlab and Fundación Williams.
APLYSIA
The dreamlike narrative of Aplysia flows from the fractured consciousness of a lucid dream, traversing memories, conversations, and ritualizations about the stories that construct one's own reality. Like a faulty hard drive, this recurring dream struggles to forge new images and reinterpret past paths with the anxiety of waking up to a new dream.
The experience is titled Aplysia in honor of a marine mollusk (Aplysia californica), that possesses a simple yet sophisticated nervous system, making it a vital asset in the realm of basic research on memory, artificial recall, and learning.
Aplysia is part of the Dream Parkour project, an exploration that delves into the dynamic convergence of live cinema, collective rituals, and immersion design. In constant reverie, it is still iterating its form, its stories, its elusive images. It is still dreaming itself.
Opening and live sets May-June at CCK. Buenos Aires. Argentina
