A team from Art-A-Hack™ 2025 Special Edition — New York — AI Art in a Time of Shifting Perspectives

Team members:

  • Christina Cappelli
  • Euijin Lee
  • Jess Shen
  • John Benton
  • Jonah Brucker-Cohen
  • Junqi Zhang
  • Latif Tahfimul
  • Rochele Gloor
*Dream Collector* - An web app and interactive installation that uses AI to turn your scattered dream memories into vivid visuals. – On the web app, you type in the fragments of a dream you recall, and an AI engine generates three images. – In the TouchDesigner installation, the AI-generated images materialize in a darkened space. Using hand gestures, you peel back a virtual veil to reveal your own dreamscapes and then swipe through others’ past dreams in real time.
Example Image of the web app interface
The web application uses: - - Open AO integration to generate images - Based on the user prompt, creates a custom color shift in the mood of the prompt - Generates 3 images
TouchDesigner Sample Interaction
Mediapipe x Touchdesigner Interaction - - Paintbrush to reveal dreams - hand 1 ( distance between pointer finger and thumb) - both hands up and spread to clear "painting" - Thumbs up = move forward through dream images - Thumbs down = move backwards through dream images
TouchDesigner Sample Interaction
Art-A-Hack (TM) ’25 AI Art In A Time of Shifting Perspectives was supported by the [School of Visual Arts Graduate Center, NY] (https://sva.edu/)