ONEIRONAUT 2025
Oneironaut (2025), detail video still.
Oneironaut is a virtual 360º lucid dream created using drawings from the artist’s childhood in collaboration with ever-emerging generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology. It is the third in a series of creative works that investigate how GenAI can be used to extend Surrealist techniques such as automatic writing and drawing, dream analysis, and the excavation of the subconscious. Surrealists challenge conventional notions of beauty and reality to liberate the mind from the constraints of reason and logic. Oneironaut delivers an immersive surreal dreamscape that evokes the curiosity and wonder of childhood.
Oneironaut was exhibited as part of VIVID Sydney 2025 in I Dream of Reality, a sold out immersive Extended Reality/Virtual Reality exhibition of alternate realities crafted by leading researchers and artists at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).