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Jarvis Cocker and Kim Sion to curate art exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield

Musician and his wife, a creative consultant, hope the Hodge Podge can expand ideas of creativity and community

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

When your eyelids become a cinema screen: what strobing light reveals about the brain

Flashing light can do more than illuminate a room. Delivered at specific rhythms and viewed through closed eyelids, it can produce vivid visual hallucinations, geometric patterns, bursts of colour and sometimes even full scenes in people with no underlying illness and no use of drugs.

The Conversation · Mar 3

Jon Hopkins: Ritual review – cosmic catharsis lacks lift-off

Originally written for an installation with mind-altering intentions, the producer’s seventh album is occasionally engaging but dissolves into drift

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2024

I tried the new 'dream machine' in Cardiff that everybody is talking about and things got really weird

Through the mind-bending art show, I was taken to strange, colourful worlds without even opening my eyes

Wales Online · May 13, 2022

Dreamachine review – as close to state-funded psychedelic drugs as you can get

Unboxed (formerly the Festival of Brexit) offers a free trip inside your own head courtesy of a flashing light technique pioneered in the 1960s. Our writer is addicted

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2022

Dreamachine at Unboxed review: The wildest trip you can take without breaking the law

Using just flickering light, this new art installation will lead you on a psychedelic adventure

Evening Standard · May 9, 2022

An immersive art show that you watch with your eyes closed is coming to Cardiff

People may see patterns and shapes, while others might see cities, landscapes or abstract waves of colour

Wales Online · Apr 29, 2022

Dreamachine, the psychedelic contraption hoping to blow British minds

Inspired by a device created by in the 1950s, the creators hope to bring free transcendental experiences to 100,000 Britons – and unite the country through communal hallucinations

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2022