https://fellowsblog.ted.com/this-artist-is-turning-his-bffs-into-dreaming-digital-avatars-52cb5a158dc9

Gabe Barcia-Colombo is something of a mad scientist of augmented reality. In the last decade, the artist has embedded holograms of his friends in household items like blenders and jars; sold their DNA in a vending machine; extrapolated strangers’ social-media feeds into virtual funerals and memorials; and recently used augmented reality to “hack” a Jackson Pollock at MoMA.

For his latest project, Barcia-Colombo has once again captured virtual doppelgängers of his friends. This time, he’s putting them to sleep, then letting visitors watch their recreated and projected dreams. This is DESCENT (Or Do Avatars Dream of Auto-Rigged Sheep).