Experience Dreaming through Mixed Reality Performance and Scientific Perspective
DreaMR, or “Exploring Dreaming with Mixed Reality”, engages with the human experience of dreaming through art, music, and consciousness science. Using cutting-edge Mixed Reality (MR), we approach dreaming like surrealist paintings: experiences that reside halfway between the visible and the invisible.
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MR technology is uniquely suited for this purpose, because it positions the audience not within a virtual world (like VR technology does) but in a liminal space that blends the real with the un-real, the conscious with the unconscious, the physical world with the world of dreams.
Fusing music, art and technology, this concert brings you into the world of dreaming with MR visuals projected to the screen.
Dr Svetlana Rudenko has composed music on the art of Salvador Dali, who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s iconic story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Carroll’s second book, as well as composing on the art of Giorgio De Chirico and others.
Xiangpeng Fu, PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, will perform alongside this music using the Meta Quest 3 Mixed Reality VR headset.
This event will also feature scientific talks by Prof. Charles Spence & Yang Gao from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK, and from Prof. Mads Haahr, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.
In the program:
Amy Beach, Dreaming, op. 15 no.3 “You Speak to Me from the Depth of a Dream.”/epigraph by V. Hugo
Surrealism in S. Prokofiev’s Sonata N4, Op. 29 and S. Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” MR
S. Rudenko, Alice Dali 2 MR, from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking- glass and what Alice Found There”
V. Kosenko Poem-Legend 2 Op.12 / J.B.Yeats Mixed Reality Scene: “Let There Be No More War”
S. Rudenko, Geri Hahn Art MR (UK Premier)
S. Rudenko, De Chirico: Metaphysical Art MR