DREAM MACHINE

VR & Desktop Virtual Performance

We collaborated with the Dream Team at Berklee College to help bring to life their Dream Machine virtual performance in 2021 & 2022. For the 2022 staging we designed an avatar for Vernon Reid called Loopmasta, this avatar was controlled by Vernon in real time so he could perform live inside the Dream Machine performance space.

The Dream Machine is a trilogy creatively led by Nona Hendryx, beginning with ‘Rose Out of Concrete’, ‘ Digital Forest’, and the latest, ’The Land of Seeming’! Newbie, is a New-Being born in one of many parallel worlds. In this world, the ‘Land of Seeming’, Newbies’ nemeses are The Head and the annoying TimeKeeper. Newbie’s Achilles heel is having no voice in the Land of Seeming and Newbie needs a voice to enter the Crown.

The work can be experienced as a virtual reality performance, via a desktop computer or by watching a live stream.