Onirica () was presented at RADAR - New Media Art Festival, in its sixth edition themed "Light Borders," from October 3 to 5, 2025, at Casa Presei Libere (House of Free Press) in Bucharest, Romania.
Onirica () is a site-specific audiovisual installation that explores the dimension of dreams, translating the creative activity of the sleeping mind into synthetic images. The work draws on a dataset of 28,748 dreams collected by the University of Bologna and the University of California Santa Cruz: real accounts of sleep, turned into text, then translated by a machine learning system into a continuous stream of visions.
At RADAR, Onirica () was presented in its immersive version, set within the Marble Hall (Sala de Marmură) of Casa Presei Libere: a main central projection carrying the generated visuals, flanked by lateral surfaces streaming fragments of the original dream texts, made visible the sheer volume and density of the archive behind the work, within a grand historic venue that gave the installation an unusually monumental architectural frame.
RADAR 2025 brought together artists and studios from over 11 countries across three continents, with works previously shown at festivals in New York, Melbourne, Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Berlin now presented in Bucharest for the first time, including Guillaume Marmin and Collectif Scale from France, Andy Thomas from Australia, and Peppercorns from Taiwan.

Radar Festival, 2025

Radar Festival, 2025

Radar Festival, 2025

