Dream³ — The Third Reality unites artists from the NUBIA LAB 2025 community — emerging and established creators exploring the intersection of VR, AI, sound, and digital storytelling. Through poetic code, speculative design, and interactive media, each artist reimagines reality as a shared act of dreaming, where technology becomes a mirror of consciousness and connection (ESPRONCEDA, 2025).

Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams is a sculptural sleep installation by Carsten Höller, developed with dream scientist Adam Haar and artist Seth Riskin for the MIT Museum’s exhibition Lighten Up! On Biology and Time. Three participants sleep inside an engineered environment where pulses of light, sound and motion gently shape dream activity, drawing on recent MIT and Harvard research showing that dreams can be influenced in real time. The work brings art, neuroscience and architecture together to create a collective, synchronised dream experience (MIT Museum, 2025).

Following the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people started to dream about the Russian president Vladimir Putin. People have recorded and shared over 1000 of these dreams on social media, creating a surreal archive of the troubled collective unconscious in times of war. In Dreams of Putin, these visions are brought to life using a combination of found footage and scenes created in Unreal Engine, a 3D graphics programme for designing computer games. Fascinating in both its experimental form and themes, this is a film that is destined to remain in the subconscious of all who see it (Sheffield Doc Fest, 2026)

Dream States — the 18th edition of Artists’ Film International — explores the boundary between waking life and imagination, bringing together moving image works that reflect on how dreams shape our sense of time and identity. The programme highlights artists who use film to navigate memory, perception, and the subconscious, inviting viewers to inhabit these liminal spaces (Southwark Park Galleries, 2025).