The Making of ‘Does Ava Dream?’ is the story behind the creation of Grant Sheehan’s single-edition metal book, Does Ava Dream? which delves into how an artificially intelligent species could develop dreaming, with striking visualisations of what those dreams might look like.
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Post the production of Sheehan’s unique metal book, he investigates – in this multi-faceted paper book – the ever-closing gap between science fiction and science fact, focusing on the contentious subject of Artificial Intelligence. Sheehan postulates that a near-future artificial general intelligence – artificial neural network or synthetic Blue Brain-equipped – might develop the ability to dream. |
Sheehan has generated 34 multi-layered images, to illustrate how these dream fragments might look on output. He discusses human dreaming and the idea, likelihood and implications of machine dreaming. His dream theorising ends with a futuristic in-depth interview with Avery, the world’s first conscious AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). |
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| As in the metal book, the images in The Making of ‘Does Ava Dream?’ are created using high-resolution pattern images, combined with artificial neural network photography plug-ins.
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Avery’s insights, although imaginary, are a sentient forecast of what may lie ahead for we humans.
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