Wet Dreams is an Immersive Biogenerative Audio-Visual Experience exploring the symbiotic relationship between dance floors, biotechnology, and organic life. The project captures the DNA of dance floors, sampling from the air in spaces of collective energy exchange, where shared breath creates a humid microbiome rich with bioinformatic data that glimmers with our earthly hydro-collectivity.
⚠ This project contains flashing lights that may trigger photosensitive epilepsy.
Dance floors gestate spatially enclosed weather systems where bodies collect, charge, and release energy. The condensation on walls and ceilings becomes evidence of our hydro-collectivity, the molecular traces of celebration and communion. Wet Dreams revisualizes these ambient byproducts, challenging biopolitical systems of division and inviting us to imagine new forms of united existence.
Each performance or installation adapts fluidly to its venue at a molecular level, creating a unique audiovisual experience that reflects the specific microbial architecture generated by that community in that moment. The project bridges performing arts, biological sciences, digital arts, and nightlife culture, revealing the invisible connections we create together in spaces of collective action.
Using a domestic dehumidifier, I collect a sample single dropplet of ambient moisture from dance-floor environments. These samples are analyzed in real-time using Oxford Nanopore's MinION portable genetic sequencer, this device used everywhere from the International Space Station, Remote Caves or deep in the Amazon Rainforest. Within 1 hour, the device provides whole genome sequencing and metagenomic analysis of the microbial life we collectively generate through dance.
The resulting genetic data flows through TouchDesigner's node-based visual programming system, where it transforms into dynamic laser-projected environments. a operator system where biological information becomes living visual architecture, projected back into the space as an ever-evolving reflection of collective presence.
“In a club strangely called “Earth” in 1989, I experienced a rain of human sweat that had accumulated on the ceiling after hours and hours of techno.
Parts of everyone were falling, alien, damp, warm, back onto everyone because of our own repetitive churning.”
SKETCHING IN HARDWARE
In October 2025: I was invited to lecture about the project’s core “Liquid DNA too TouchDesigner” operator system, at the Sketching in Hardware Conference in Paris Fr
Generously supported by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Metagenomic environmental sampling of Rave bioaerosols
Bioaerosols are the airborne drifters of life: microbes, spores, virions, pollen, crumbs of tissue, and organic dust, shedding from soils, buildings, and bodies. Ventilation and weather keep them moving, traveling far beyond the bodies they came from. these traces stick around, suspended in air or tucked into dust, and condensate.
WORLD CREATION STUDIO
Developed through a year-long OPEN/WORLD residency at World Creation Studio (Montréal). Culminated in sharing the process and outcomes with the community through an exhibition, an artist talk, and a TouchDesigner demonstration.
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