Do Silhouettes Dream?

This paper complements our interactive art installation consisting of a back-projected screen and a depth sensor. As participants stand in front of the projection, their silhouettes create an area of hallucination that changes with their movement. Hallucinations may vary; some are \"dreams\", transporting the area covered by the silhouette to past or future times. Others escape reality and either alter the visual artistic style or form \"deep dreams\", i.e. hallucinations created through a feedback loop on artificial deep neural networks. Hallucinations vary in intensity and \"depth\" as participants move, increasingly distorting reality with proximity to the screen. To our knowledge, this installation is the first of its kind, placing fascinating results of cutting-edge artificial intelligence in a public embodied experience.