Roswila's Dream & Poetry Realm This blog site is devoted to exploring
the rich symbol systems of dreams, poetry and Tarot and how we use these creatively.
E.g., there are articles on exploring our dreams with The Tarot, using dreams
as a basis for poetry, on applying Feng Shui principles to dreams, and on
a dream in which Tarot images appeared. There is also a collection of poems
based on dreams, a forum for posting and discussing dreams, reviews and announcements
related to dreams, and an online chat capability.
Dreams:
Art of the Collective Unconscious This project was developed to raise
general consciousness of the importance of dreaming via an Internet web site.
Verbal invitations and email were used to gather volunteer participants. The
following instructions were given: Record in writing a recent or recurring
dream, in first person and present tense. Express the dream with a drawing
or other art form. Record the emotions associated with the dream. Study the
dream-inspired artwork and provide a written interpretation. Provide first
name, age, occupation and geographic location. Dreams were collected, digitized,
formatted and made available on the Internet. Supporting materials – including
historical information, dream theories and a summary of new research – were
also prepared and placed online.
Dream
Wave Theatre
The makers of Dream Wave Scribe, a dream journalling and interpretive
software integrated with the website, have created a "theater of images"
and symbols designed to awaken the participant's imagination.
Dream
Pot searches for links in a myriad of dreams. Dreams documented as
text are thrown into the pot, and relocated, after undergoing Dream Not
ation,
Dream Carpentry and/or Dream ReVision, to an uncanny time and space. This
Japanese-English site is part of an experimental online art and dream experiment.
REN-GEI-ZA, or Network Art Theater, was opened in June 1996 as a laboratory
to explore new styles of network collaboration. The producers of REN-GEI-ZA,
Rieko Nakamura and Toshihiro Anzai, have been working on Renga, or linked
images since 1991. Some experiments in REN-GEI-ZA are extensions of the Renga
concepts and closely liked to its ideas. Renga is a creative session which
starts with a seed image and evolves as the image goes back and forth and
modified or taken into a new picture by network artists. Renga is based on
a Japanese traditional poem system which is also pronounced Renga meaning
linked poem. Those who participate in this highly interactive Renga would
discover that seeing and painting are much more closely linked. Also one may
feel a kind of pleasant sensation of finding one's own work "stolen" by someone
else. Also one may be surprized by the fact that any piece of image is usually
liked with many other images. One might even be shocked when he/she discovers
that the boundary between oneself and others could be much more obscure than
people think. The Dream-Pot, which is the most ambitious realm of REN-GEI-ZA,
deals with the world of dream. In a dream, the boundary between oneself and
others sometime almost vanishes. The Dream-Pot page is always open for entry
of a description of a dream. A person called "dream notator" will pick up
the dreams thrown into the page and weave dreams from many dreamers into a
link of dreams. Try to imagine your dream about the bathboom is somehow linked
to someone else's bathroom. The Dream Carpenter, who is a visual creator by
profession, will convert your dream into visual imag\t an image from the reality
inspired by the dream text. The Dream-Pot forms a bigger collaboration environment
based on a pool of dreams shared by many people.REN-GEI-ZA runs several short-term
art performances, taking advantage of the bidrectionality of the network.
The Dream-Pot collaboration environment is symbolicaly shown in the page "Dream
Tree". Around the root of the tree are a pile of dream packs covering the
ground as if it was fertile soil for the tree. Each of the dream pack is linked
to a piece of text describing a dream sent by someone. The Dream Notator is
standing by near the tree to pick up a key word to connect the piece to another
piece of dream. For example when you open a dream pack you may find a word
"white bear". By clicking the word, you can jump to another dream containing
the same word "white bear". You may find a clickable word "courtyard" there.
By clicking the word, you can jump to another dream with courtyard. Near the
leaves of the Dream Tree, you'll find The Dream Carpenter and The Dream ReVisioner.
They walk around the dream packs and try to visualize them. The resultant
visual works have links to the source dreams. The Dream-Pot is a restructuring
machine of fragmented dreams freed from the individual owners. *Dream Notator
: Maki TAKIYA/ Dream Carpenter:Rujirushi / Dream ReVisioner1:Judy Matsumoto
&Tsuneo Matsumoto (Web Design:Rey Hori ) / Dream ReVisioner2: Coppice(Kazumi
Seki & Junichi Yoshino)
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