Distrust Everything is a call to imagination as a way out to the realism burdening our language and experience.
American artist Mirek Hardiker, former Stanford researcher, has built a gigantic (21 years on a daily base) archive of transcripts
of his dreams, which serve as a dataset. A generative neural network system ‘reads’ Hardiker’s reports and generates new dreams from what is learnt from the dataset. The generated text serves as a screenplay for the entire film. Archetypal
characters and events thus seem to emerge from a
synthetic unconscious.
The work investigates the relationship between the human and unconscious through an intense and perturbing aesthetic experience. Born as a multichannel installation, the work was co-commissioned by a platform of institutions, including Elevate Festival and Superbudda.
