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While You Were Sleeping

This After Dark event was devoted to the ever-mysterious and otherworldly dimensions of sleep, darkness, and night.

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While You Were Sleeping

During this evening devoted to the ever-mysterious and otherworldly dimensions of sleep, darkness, and night, visitors could wander through somnambulant filmscapes, cozy up to an experimental bunk bed chat, or examine a troubling case of nyctalopia, also known as "night blindness." In addition, visitors could examine what happens in their own subconscious during sleep, or simply be lulled by the siren song of the humpback whale. This special installment of After Dark was presented as the public portion of Art as a Way of Knowing, a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Highlights

  • Writer/editor Andrew Leland on night blindness.
  • Blackrain, a film with live sound mix by Semiconductor.
  • A Bunk Bed Conversation presented by Cabinet magazine with scholars Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven.
  • A special, continuous performance of Erik Satie's Vexations.
  • A humpback whale song composition created by independent curator Chris Fitzpatrick, composer Thomas Dimuzio, and NOAA cetacean acoustics expert Dave Mellinger.
  • A film with live musical accompaniment by David Wilson of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in collaboration with Æ ("ash").
  • A night raga performed by acclaimed composer and musician, Rita Sahai.
  • A museum-wide restaging of Allan Kaprow's Perfect Bed
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