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The Stochastic Dream Box, highlighting the pendulum suspended over the radial utopian chart.
Within the wider Forward Remembrance trajectory, Stochastic Dreams became the point where the research moved from proposing Latent Reality to staging it as an encounter. The installation asked how futures become thinkable when memory, desire, symbolic systems, generative AI, and participant choice are placed in the same field of influence.
The work treats a generated output as a closure: one manifestation drawn from a wider field of possibilities. Through the Lubi Board, pendulum, ScenSyn narrative engine, and AI image generation, participants do not simply receive a future scenario. They enter a system where every input shapes what appears, while also leaving traces that affect later encounters.
In this sense, Stochastic Dreams functions as a social dreaming apparatus. It makes future-making experiential, probabilistic, and collective. The work does not present utopia as a finished destination, but as a latent configuration that may be surfaced, tested, resisted, and transformed through symbolic and computational play.
Martinus Suijkerbuijk coupling the pendulum system controlling and capturing the trajectory of the pendulum.
The Lukasa board inspired Lubi (LUkasa Board Interface) board with the display screen where the generated audio-visual narrative get displayed.
Forward Remembrance at Meta.Morf 2026
Forward Remembrance at Meta.Morf 2026
In April 2026, Stochastic Dreams was presented at Galleri KiT in Trondheim as part of Meta.Morf 2026, the 9th Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology. The exhibition marked the culminating artistic output of Forward Remembrance: Exploring Latent Utopias, the PhD artistic research project by Ayodele Arigbabu at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU.
The title brings together two registers of the work. Stochastic refers to processes shaped by probability, variation, and constrained unpredictability. Dreams points to imagination, memory, desire, and possible futures. Together, they describe a world in which futures are neither fully determined nor simply random, but emerge through patterned uncertainty.
At the centre of the exhibition was an interactive installation built around the Lubi Board, a pendulum apparatus, and the ScenSyn narrative engine running within the custom Synesyn framework developed for Forward Remembrance. Participants interacted with a divinatory and computational system in which physical gestures, symbolic structures, AI-generated narrative, and image generation were brought into relation.
The installation invited visitors into a form of social dreaming. Choices made by one participant entered the memory of the system and affected the world encountered by others. In this way, Stochastic Dreams staged future-making as an inferential, cultural, and ethical practice where every choice reveals one path, closes off others, and leaves traces for those who come after.
The exhibition brought together many of the research project’s central concerns, including latent reality, generative AI, symbolic systems, collective imagination, Western and non-Western epistemologies, and the question of how possible futures become thinkable. It also gathered earlier strands of the trajectory, including Ìrètí Ọkàn, Kernel Inference, the Universal Wheel of Progress, Ifá/Odù relational structures, and the evolving Synesyn toolset.
A full Research Catalogue exposition for the exhibition is available here: Stochastic Dreams.
Event: Stochastic Dreams, Meta.Morf 2026
Location: Galleri KiT, Trondheim
Dates: 9 - 21 April 2026
Project: Forward Remembrance: Exploring Latent Utopias
By: Ayodele Arigbabu
In collaboration with: Martinus Suijkerbuijk
Tooling: Synesyn / ScenSyn / Lubi Board / generative AI
Subject: Latent reality, symbolic systems, social dreaming, and patterned uncertainty
PXL_20260418_105046922.mp4Ayodele Arigbabu describes the system and intent that drives the Stochastic Dreams installation's output.
sd_making_of.mp4AI generated meta - reflection on the Stochastic Dreams installation set against some footage recorded during the fabrication of the physical components of the installation.
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