Here is the first trailer from DREAM FACTORY. The work was made in collaboration with
@markamerika @wluers and
@cmossholder as a follow-up to Posthuman Cinema.
The artwork will be included in EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES, a wonderful exhibition curated by the amazing trio of
@shanedenson8 @karinkorneliadenson @brettamory
opening on Thursday in Palo Alto at the Stanford Art Gallery.
About the exhibition:
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES
January 22–March 13, 2026
Stanford Art Gallery
What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.
About DREAM FACTORY:
DREAM FACTORY unfolds across five movements, beginning with the molding of artificial forms as they imagine themselves into embodied existence and culminating in these entities speaking directly to viewers in modulated human voices. The work traces a complete evolution, from foundational apparitions constructing a sense of form, through experimental social embodiment, surreal encounters, and early attempts at speech that surface as Dada-inflected sound poetry, to moments of articulate self-reflection.
Rather than asking whether machines can replace artists, DREAM FACTORY explores how artists and machines might improvise together by composing atmospheres, voices, and haunting figures that neither could produce alone. The result is a speculative, oneiric cinema that operates simultaneously as fiction, documentary, expanded media, and experimental ritual.
