About & Portfolio > La máquina surrealista
Course
Estética de medios
digitales e interactivos
Category
School Projects, UI/UX, Software, Hardware
Date
May 2018
About this project
La máquina surrealista: The Dream Machine is an interactive, surrealist art generator
This was my final project for the course Aesthetics of digital and interactive media at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
I wanted to approach the Deep Dreaming concept as a subconscious digital process, analogical to those of humans. Both systems use abstractions from perceptions, insights and knowledge from an unconscious "mind" to recreate altered visuals, which, although seemingly random, are always justified by said abstract thoughts, during said dream.
The Dream Machine Experience consists of a Python application that creates Deep Dream art by stitching pre-loaded images from Zip Disks (diskettes) into a custom collage, which then runs through the DeepAI Deep Dream API to create beautiful psychedelic compositions, inspired by influential art movements.
The full essay, along with sources and citations is available here (PDF, in Spanish).
Concept & Design by Antonio Tarín C.
Programming & Implementation by Axel Suárez
