Luke Jerram: Dream Director
2006 Clark Bursary recipient Luke Jerram documents his experiences during the realisation of his innovative 'Dream Director' project.
Luke Jerram was awarded the 6th Clark Bursary in 2006 to develop 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 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.
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Luke Jerram Dream Director
Ended in September 2007