How the Dalí Museum is using DALL-E to transform dreams into art
Project by Goodby Silverstein & Partners uses AI to create images based on visitors' dream descriptions
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Bringing the artificial intelligence system "DALL-E" to the The Dalí Museum sounds like a creative no-brainer. But this new project from Goodby Silverstein & Partners is about more than a clever pun; it's an ambitious immersive project that aims to transform visitors' dreams into art.
To accompany the St. Petersburg, Florida-based museum's new exhibition "The Shape of Dreams," GS&P created the "Dream Tapestry." The experience begins by asking visitors to describe a recent, recurring or favorite dream. Using each description, DALL-E generates original, photo-realistic images to turn the personal dreams into individualized art pieces, based on the artistic styles featured in the exhibition. All of these are displayed in a collective "tapestry" displayed on a 12-foot screen on The Dalí’s gallery walls.
The project, which was created by GS&P with creative concepting by Minds Over Matter, and OpenAI, the creator of DALL-E, is the first interactive use of DALL-E in a museum.
A presentation of how the experience was created, how the technology works and a gallery of each dream created in real-time at The Dalí can be seen at TheDali.org/Dreaming.
"Salvador Dalí relied heavily on dreams in the making of his art and encouraged us all to study our nighttime journeys,” said Jeff Goodby, co-founder and co-chairman of GS&P, in a statement. “The Dream Tapestry will visualize a remembered or imagined dream in an artistic style, magically joining together the dreams of six different visitors. Amazingly, this will give us a collective image of what we are dreaming as a country — even as a world — at that particular moment.”
Credits
- Date
- Nov 29, 2022
- Client :
- The Dali Museum
- Agency :
- Goodby Silverstein & Partners
- Executive Director :
- Hank Hine
- Chief Operating Officer :
- Kathy Greif
- Digital Experiences Director :
- Beth Harrison
- Marketing Director :
- Beth Bell
- Facilities Director :
- Brian Iacofano
- Co-Chairman and Co-Founder :
- Jeff Goodby
- Director of Artificial Intelligence :
- Nathan Shipley
- Associate Creative Director :
- Ricardo Matos
- Associate Creative Director :
- Patrick Matzenbacher
- Lead Creative Technologist :
- August Bjornberg
- Creative Technologist :
- Shan Jin
- Creative Technologist :
- Joshua Blair
- Post Production :
- Elevel Post
- Director :
- Michael Damiani
- Executive Producer :
- John Dutton
- Creative Director :
- Mike Landry
- Motion Artist :
- Natasha Candelaria
- Motion Artist :
- Zachary Seidner
- Motion Artist :
- Nick Bizzack
- Editor :
- Russel Fong
- Composer & Sound Engineer :
- Nicholas DeMatteo
- Account Manager :
- Daney Ramirez
- Director of Production :
- Jim Haight
- Executive Producer :
- Tena Goy
- Senior Producer :
- Severin Sauliere
- Producer :
- Jackie Nelms
- Director of Business Affairs :
- Judy Ybarra
- Principal Creative :
- Travis Threlkel
- Principal Content :
- Marc Melzer
- Principal Design Strategy :
- Alex Oropeza
- Associate Creative Director :
- Naohito Haitani
- Dream Theory Consultant :
- Michaela Costello
- Lead Designer :
- Kevin Veitch
- Lead Fabricator :
- Johnny Harrison
- Director of Film Content :
- JP Patterson
- Director of Photography :
- Jason Young
- Line Producer :
- Nicole Gonzalez
- Video Production :
- WinnePeg Productions
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