Artists Kite and Alisha B Wormsley have created a series of benches in Brooklyn clad in black mortar and covered in AI-generated mosaics informed by dreams collected from the public.
Located in a square in Downtown Brooklyn, the project consists of a series of benches and steps covered in tile mosaic patterns, derived from a website called Cosmologyscape, where participants entered dreams into "dream journal chatbot".
The resulting benches were inscribed with interpretations of the entries generated through AI programming.
Artists Kite and Alisha B Wormsley have completed a set of benches covered in mosaics informed by dreams
The project is a result of  Kite and Alisha B Wormsley's collaborative work focused on the intersection of art and technology through a Black and Indigenous lens, as well as Kite's research and writing work, which focuses on Indigenous culture's input in the development of AI technology. Clustered in a circle, the public installations consist of four, organic-shaped benches encircling a tree planter and an "offering bowl".
Each piece is covered in black mortar, which the artist said symbolises the night sky. Each piece was covered by a patchwork of colourful glass tile mosaics and small planting beds.

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The mosaics are informed by versions of symbols Kite and Wormsley selected from their ancestral Lakota, ...