Interactive Installation
Lab.30 Festival
Augsburg
Germany
2024
Dream Blender was presented at Lab.30, one of Germany's leading festivals dedicated to media art, digital culture and experimental technologies.
The installation invited visitors into an immersive dialogue between human emotion and artificial intelligence. Using facial expression analysis, Dream Blender translated subtle emotional reactions into continuously evolving projections of light, colour and abstract visual forms.
Rather than classifying feelings as fixed emotional states, the system interpreted each visitor's expression as part of an ever-changing emotional landscape. Every interaction produced a unique visual composition that existed only for that particular moment.
At Lab.30, Dream Blender explored how artificial intelligence can become a creative collaborator rather than an analytical observer. The work questioned how machines perceive human emotions—and whether technology might reveal aspects of ourselves that often remain invisible even to us.
Created by
Juliana & Andrey Vrady
coded with ♥ by Andy Junginger
Selected Press
"Die interaktive KI-Installation 'Dream Blender' zeigt einen künstlerisch-immersiven Dialog zwischen Mensch und Technologie."
Published by Lab.30 Festival, Augsburg
"Über eine Gesichtserkennungs-Software wird die Mimik der Besuchenden gescannt und in biometrische Daten übersetzt. Die Software transformiert die gegenwärtige Stimmung in Echtzeit in ein digitales Kunstwerk aus Licht und Farben."
Lab.30 Festival Catalogue
"Die Werke der Ausstellung zeigen eindrücklich, wie neueste Technologien die Kunst, aber auch das Menschsein verändern können."
Published by SÜDKURIER, Germany
juliana & andrey vrady