Brion Gysin was a British artist born in 1916 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. He was known for his work in painting, drawing, sound poetry, and performance art, and was associated with the ...

This is what Brion Gysin experienced during his trip to Marseille in the late 1960s. The fact that flashing lights can cause hallucinations was not surprising to scientists. Stroboscopic light ...

Dreamachine’s hallucinatory spectacle only happens inside your head. The project was inspired by the work of artist, writer and inventor Brion Gysin (a William Burroughs acolyte) and is the brainchild ...

Brion Gysin’s “Dreamachine” – a whirling perforated metal cylinder, illuminated from within like a sort of centrifugal lava lamp, and intended to be “seen with the eyes closed” (which ...

"Dreamachine no.9" from the British Canadian artist Brion Gysin, a homemade mechanical device that creates patterns, and German artist Otto Piene's "Light Room (Jena)," a light installation that ...

Electric Dreams at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing. “Electric Dreams: Art and ...