Dongpo dream machine: notes towards an exhibition

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Exhibit at Dongpo Historical Culture and Art Museum, Hainan (Courtesy of the museum. Photo: Sunil Manghani).

‘Dreaming Lake’, Dongpo Academy, Hainan (photo: Wang Jingyin).

小荷才露尖尖角, 早有蜻蜓立上头。

[The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it].

‘Dream Room’ at Dongpo Historical Culture and Art Museum, Hainan (Courtesy of the museum. Photo: Wang Jingyin). Details of cabinet vignettes are shown on the next two pages (Courtesy of the museum. Photos: Ed D’Souza).

Cabinet vignette from ‘Dream Room’ at Dongpo Historical Culture and Art Museum, Hainan (Courtesy of the museum. Photo: Sunil Manghani).

Poetic note, carved on wood. Entrance of Dongpo Historical Culture and Art Museum (Courtesy of the museum. Photo: Sunil Manghani).

AI imaginings of a digital, immersive exhibition upon Dreaming Lake, based on DALL-E 2 prompt: ‘ … presenting poetry on Su Dongpo dream lake, filled with lotus flowers’.

Development of Su Shi stye poetry, using OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.

Dongpo Dream Machine, as envisaged by DALL-E 2 as an extension to ‘The Transformer – model Architecture’ (Vaswani et al. 2017).

‘Dreaming Lake’ [Detail], Dongpo Academy, Hainan (Photo: Sunil Manghani).

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