Synthetic Dreams 






2025 Project

Generative Art, Creative Coding, AIGC


Can a machine dream, and if so, whose dream is it? Inspired by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I imagine the algorithm as a “dreamer” that generates shifting synthetic memories from the keywords and images drawn from my own dreams. These fragments are continually recomposed into dreamscapes that hover between the real and the fabricated. As the images move, transform, and fold across different mediums, they remain unstable. The work asks when a dream is built from fragments of my own memories yet reimagined through the mechanisms of a machine, does it still belong to me? Or has it already become a dream of the machine, one that echoes mine yet can never fully coincide with it?




























Process




Generative Keywords
silver
comb
butterfly
blue light
open area outside the supermarket
shopping cart
fish
lost
coat
pocket
narrow road
stream of people
anchor point
winter
night
ten o’clock
sneakers
movie
quilt
knock on the door
cat
sheep
snow
work





AIGC Image Database



Script


This script runs in Adobe Photoshop and is used to generate generative art.



































Step 1 – Place a random image from the folder into the document and resize it to 1920×1920 px.

Step 2 – Place another random image from the folder, and randomly run one action using quick selection tool on this image.

Step 3 – Randomly duplicate the image from Step 2 ≤ 4 times and move them.

Step 4 - Apply one random effect on the duplicated image

Step 5 - Place two more random images, and perform the same operation as in Step 2 (run a random action 1–3), then randomly duplicate and move them.

































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