SLEEPER CELLS

1presentations of projects

• suspension of disbelief• fourth wall• possible• probable• impossible• preferable• audience• future/now?

• utopia• dystopia• empathy• foresight• political• economical• ecological • rhetoric

2speculative snack

3melbourne unisleep lab

ASSIGNMENT 1Dream Diary

Throughout the semester you will keep a dream journal.

You may use any medium to record your dreams, though it must be contained in some sort of chronological order.

The journal will be assessed on its depth of detail and expression. The dream journal will trigger other ideas and processes in your work. It should come naturally.

keep a pencil and pad by your bed and every morning when you wake up, record everything you can.

it should get more vivid as the semester progresses.

I encourage you to use different mediums and techniques to explore and express your dreams. Try and illustrate the dreams after absorbing and writing them down.

1Make tool/object which represents the divide between wakefullness and sleep, or the conscious and unconscious. Try and link it to an existing notion of the mind/dreams.(Freud, Jung, Perl, Adler, Hall, Revonusuo)

2Read the Century of the Bed introductory essay and the Dator article up to the end of page 6. We will start with some exercises next week.

3Find 4-5 articles which could seed impacts on sleep and dreaming in the future. These could be direct or indirect scientific papers, news stories, videos etc, but must have an element of truth or research.