Bloom of Breaths
This project explores how bodily rhythm and mental imagery can create a collective memory through visualization. During meditation, a participant’s breathing and memory of inner sensations are recorded and transformed into projected light that gently surrounds them.
When the meditation ends, their consciousness condenses into a shadow left behind, a personal imprint that reveals their mental imagery.
Research Team
Lilith Ren
Melo Chen
Raphael Li
Location
Harvard Camlab Cave
Dates
25 Fall
Collective Memory
Touch Designer
Immersive Projection
What If
the rhythms of our body and the mental reflection could be visualized, imprinting each person’s presence to create a collective archive of shared consciousness?
Experience
Each new visitor enters the space and adds another layer of breath, imagery, and memory. Over time, the installation becomes a living archive and a collective memory, enabling more people to experience others' subconscious dreams.
1: Visualize Breathing Rate in real time in Touch Designer
To create interactive experience with user's dream, we combine TD visuals with biological data collected from sensors — breathing controls how the visuals moves ambiently, reflecting their flow of the mind.
2: Visualize Breathing Rate in real time
Different breathing rhythm affects the visualization.
3: Combine Breath and Memory
By translating the original footage of meditation, this is how breathing data and spoken narratives blend into the visuals inside that silhouette.
4: Collective Memory
Your shadow will illuminate the previous person’s dream and breath rate. Other people can reactivate the lingering memory shadow through each of the captured silhouette. Over time, each participant’s data becomes part of a growing collective memory.
Vision
We help people record and publish their dreams,
and re-live others’ dreams as time-based experiences
where language and physiology co-author the visuals, audio, and touch.
Harvard Camlab Exhibition
NEURO AESTHETICS:
At the Threshold of Consciousness
21-22 March, 2026