The artwork was designed and rendered with the Electric Sheep, a cyborg mind composed of 60,000 computers and people mediated by a genetic algorithm.

Physically it consists of a small computer driving a large high definition display. The computer creates a continuously morphing, non-repeating, abstract animation. It is not software that you can download, but a custom configured computer preloaded with a large database (the artwork is guaranteed for life).

The artist selects his favorite sheep from the archives and public flock, and sends them back to be re-rendered at high fidelity: heaven for an electric sheep. This new flock has grown to 100GB, totaling 18 hours if played end-to-end, and requiring over 200 years to render on a single computer.

Dreams consists of a small, quiet computer preloaded with this flock and playback software. It's configured to run on boot without a keyboard or mouse. Custom framed displays are available as an option, or the appliance can be plugged into an existing 16x9 display. This is a new category of art we call "Paintings that Evolve".

Dreams is available in a limited edition of four. Each has a slightly different flock and includes sheep unique to it. Each flock resonates differently on playback so its sheep have a unique frequency distribution. The artist tunes each flock by adding and removing transitions between sheep to balance the distribution.

These premium editions and other artworks have a symbiotic relationship to the free screen-saver. The free version provides the design laboratory and gene pool from which the best sheep are extracted. It also provides the distributed supercomputer needed to realize the high fidelity content. To complement, the premium editions provide the financing required to keep the whole project in operation, and develop it further.

I look forward to many more generations of sheep at ever higher resolutions, with more expressive genetic codes, in three dimensions, responding to music, performing feats not yet imagined.