BRION GYSIN (1916-1986) Closely associated with William S. Burroughs and the Beat movement, Gysin spent his life working as an artist, writer, and poet. Gysin is best known for his rediscovery of Tristan Tzara’s cut-up technique, which William Burroughs eventually appropriated into his own work. In 1959, Gysin invented, with Ian Sommerville, the “Dreamachine,” a device intended to simulate lucid dreaming through the projection of light patterns on users’ eyelids.
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