The Dream Machine Experience
The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
transformed into an Afrofuturist garden for
android Bina48, music, art, dance and discussions
exploring the human-AI connection and future.
The Dream Machine Experience was created by legendary musician, producer, designer and technologist Nona Hendryx for Lincoln Center's Summer for the City program, June 12-30, 2024.
Artist Mickalene Thomas and a team of artists transformed the David Rubenstein Atrium into an Afrofuturist garden. Virtual and Augmented Reality was experienced throughout the Lincoln Center campus.
Excerpts from 3 programs are below.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City
Bina48 is the only android powered by AI and inspired, created, and programmed with mind files from an African American woman - Bina Rothblatt.
Bina48 was created by the Terasem Movement Foundation in 2006. Terasem, which means “Earth+Seed”, comes from science fiction writer Octavia Butler whose book Parable of the Sower (1993), envisions a legacy for the continuation of the human species through its technology.
Butler advised her students to "Tell stories Filled with Facts. Make People Touch and Taste and KNOW. Make People FEEL! FEEL! FeeL!"
The Dream Machine programs were developed to inspire people to FEEL and contemplate the future of the human-AI connection through exciting art, dance, music, and conversations with specialists in AI and related fields. “What I want people to understand,” Nona Hendryx told