Dream Factory
Full screening followed by a conversation with Mark Amerika
Moderated by Ana Carvalho
17 June 2026
19:00–20:00
Casa Comum, University of Porto
As part of the international conference Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms, this event presents a full screening of Dream Factory, followed by a conversation with Mark Amerika, moderated by Ana Carvalho.
The event is organised within the framework of the DARIAH-EU Theme Call 2024–2026 “Mistakes”.
About Mark Amerika
Mark Amerika has exhibited his art in many venues, including the Whitney Biennial, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ZKM, the Walker Art Center, the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona, and Casa Comum at the University of Porto.
In 2009–2010, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, featured Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition UNREALTIME, including his groundbreaking works of Internet art GRAMMATRON and FILMTEXT, as well as his feature-length work of mobile cinema, Immobilité.
In 2012, Amerika released his transmedia narrative Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA), a multi-platform net artwork commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The MOGA project has since been remixed for Amerika’s solo exhibition Glitch. Click. Thunk at the University of Hawaii Art Galleries and Glitch Mix: not an error, which took place in Havana, Cuba, at the Estudio Figueroa-Vives and the Norwegian Embassy to Cuba.
About Dream Factory
Dream Factory is Mark Amerika’s newest artwork, made in collaboration with Will Luers and Chad Mossholder. In this 30-minute AI-driven cinema work, the artists use poetic and theoretical language in real-time call-and-response sessions with AI systems to coax artificial figures into being.
Unfolding across five movements, the work traces these figures as they evolve from ghostly apparitions into entities that speak directly to viewers in modulated human voices, raising urgent questions about creativity and human expression in the age of machine intelligence.