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$`RECURRING DREAM` BY COREY SCHNEIDER Shown @thedarkroomsexhibition - Veins In 1959, Brion Gysin developed a machine designed to be experienced with closed eyes. You sit in front of it, close your eyelids, and the flickering begins. Colors, patterns, fractals. Through rhythmic pulses of light, the machine stimulates the optic nerve, generates visual phenomena, and calms the brainʼs alpha waves. Gysin described this experience as a journey inward. There is no movement through geographic space; instead, attention turns toward the shifting landscapes of perception and the unconscious. But is it possible to catch a glimpse of these landscapes with our eyes open? This installation brings Gysinʼs historic machine into 2026 through contemporary technology. The inner world is projected outward. Moving projections and layered sound compositions create an environment that is constantly evolving throughout the space. The installation does not simply represent the inner experience—it translates it into a shared spatial encounter. The physical presence of Gysinʼs machine lies at the heart of Corey Schneiderʼs installation. Beyond its ability to alter perception, the machine is also a kinetic sculpture. The installation draws attention to the way its rhythms unfold within the space and enter into dialogue with the surrounding architecture. ARTWORK BY COREY SCHNEIDER @COREYSCHNEIDER.art MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: PHILIPP HELLDORFER @HELLDORFER_ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: LUKAS ESSER @LUKASESSER EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: STRATOS BICHAKIS @STRATOS_BICHAKIS Photos: @carstenbeier ----------------------------- Exhibition: July 10–26, 2026 ----------------------------- #thedarkroomsexhibition #Installationart #lostplace #Immersiveexperiences #COREYSCHNEIDER$

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Recurring Dream is an immersive light and sound installation inspired by Dreamachine (1959), created by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville. Dreamachine used rhythmic pulses of strobing light to produce vivid patterns of hallucinatory visual effects. Gysin’s work explored “interior vision”, offering not images but the conditions through which they might arise.

Recurring Dream extends this proposition outward, transforming a contained perceptual device into an immersive environment. Light unfolds in shifting forms that gather and dissolve, while time loosens into cycles of acceleration and suspension.

A sonic field moves in concert with the work, circling, phasing and folding back on itself. Patterns of light grow and oscillate between rapid motion and stillness. Sounds traverse the space alongside wandering beams of light, drifting and repeating until light and sound begin to feel like two halves of a greater whole.

At a time when we consume images almost constantly through screens, Recurring Dream asks for something slower and more physical: to be present with an experience that cannot be fully captured in a photograph or video.

After nearly two years in the making, the work was shown as part of @thedarkroomsexhibition in July 2026.

This piece has brought me tremendous joy and fulfillment which would not have been remotely possible without the combined efforts of many talented people to whom I owe my gratitude.

For their technical and creative contributions, without which I would be completely lost:
@helldorfer_engineering mechanical engineering
@stratos_bichakis embedded systems engineering
@lukasesser electrical engineering
@immerglotzer additional programming and production
@thatshems gong composition

For generously donating their time and expertise in assistance:
@lieboldmarc @derderder.cc Ross Jackson

For capturing the magic:
@frank_sauer exhibition video

For their vision, support and execution of a flawlessly curated and produced exhibition:
@clarasauer @studiosvensauer

For their encouragement and galvanizing belief in me and the project:
@boris.acket @timo_lejeune

Thank you.

Made with @touchdesigner and @bitwig

#installationart #mediaart

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