A Dreamscape Cartography
A Dreamscape Cartography is a work of Desktop 3D Art, developed through mobile scanning techniques and navigated within Blender. Originating from a research-based project in Nicosia, Cyprus, the piece reactivates the ancient practice of dream incubation in order to explore how virtual environments can function as mediators between interior psychic processes and technological topographies. The project articulates an experimental continuity between imaginal dimensions, embodied perception, and digital infrastructures.
By incorporating scans of abandoned houses and ruins from the Buffer Zone—spaces suspended in political and temporal liminality—the work produces a dreamlike cartography that weaves together fragmented territories and opens them to new modes of ritual inhabitation.
Here, the virtual is not understood as a neutral simulation but as an externalization of psychic space, configuring novel forms of territoriality and psychogenic mapping. Such environments allow for speculative operations upon the real, while simultaneously constituting sites of resistance against what may be described as a digital animism: the quasi-spiritual agency of the internet and algorithmic systems of power. As Nick Land suggests with his analogy to voodoo platforms, these infrastructures infiltrate and reprogram cognitive flows through the market and its agents. The work engages this condition critically, proposing an imaginal counter-space for reconfiguring existence.
Short Bio
Marc Samper is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and photographer from Barcelona, currently based in Paris. His work explores the ontology and phenomenology of the image in global mass media, speculative metaphysics, and the intersection between mysticism and technique. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and an MA in Cinema Studies from Pompeu Fabra University.
His recent piece A Dreamscape Cartography, combining 3D scanning and desktop art, has been presented at international events such as the FILE Festival in São Paulo (2025), the Cairo Video Festival (2024), and the CICA Museum in South Korea.
He was an artist-in-residence at URBAN NATION Berlin (2020–2021), where he presented the video installation The Hanging Gardens or the Virtuality of the Events. In 2023, he received a grant from the Cyprus Ministry of Culture to produce The Cartographer and Her Chorus: A Dreamscape Monodrama, an audiovisual performance installation created and premiered in Nicosia.
Samper has been selected in numerous experimental film and video art festivals, including the International Avant-Garde Film Festival, where his film Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer won Best Performance in 2023. His work has also been shown at the III Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, EIGHT – Critical Institute for Arts and Politics in Athens, and Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, among others.