The Laboratory of Donated Dreams
Reshaping Work Barcelona is an event hosting a growing network of researchers, workers, and entrepreneurs who are critically dealing with the future of work. Reshaping Work events across Europe are discussing and highlighting the platform-, gig- and caring economies, and other topics related to workers’ rights.
We curated a socially aware and speculative arts program of interactive experiences. “The Lab” was both the overarching narrative of the arts program and a physical installation of a laboratory in 2040 where guests could undergo a 20-minute process to donate their dreams (much like when we donate blood in 2019).
Curated experiences by Barcelona based artists Vicky González, David Ortiz Juan, Helena Matamala & Domestic Data Streamers were also showcased during the two-day conference.
The donated dreams were processed by the same algorithm from our blockchain project “The Algorithm of Donated Dreams”, and it’s a piece of computational poetry. It can be experienced in the link below:
>> LINK to Taper, an online literary journal for computational poetry and literary art published by Bad Quarto <<
A recording of The algorithm of donated dreams for the INTERFACE exhibition in Osaka.
A special thanks to our local dream team:
Natalia Santolaria
Laura Milà
Clara Llongarriu
Albert Cañigueral
Most photos by Clara Llongarriu & Natalia Santolaria.