Dance with Artificial Life
2022
Movement, Real-Time Interaction, Video Projection
GarageBand, Max-MSP
Performance
A Performance Co-Created with an Autonomous Virtual System: A Symbiotic Approach
Isadora Teles de Castro E Costa, Hui-Ting Hong, Chu-Yin Chen
International Symposium on Electronic Arts(ISEA) 2023
This paper is a case study of a performance co-created in interaction with an autonomous virtual system. Our outcomes point to an essential production period where the creative team learns to know the virtual system through indirect interactions: the match-up phase. During this step, co-creation and coevolution moments happened, indicating a possible symbiotic relationship. We discuss the implications and the outcomes of working with autonomous scenography in a performative context. We then expand the reflection to the potential creative associations between performance arts and autonomous technology.
Research context
This performance is developed during the residence at Centre des Arts d’Enguien-les-Bains, in the framework of EUR ArTeC. Artistic concept: "A dive between two worlds, one robotic, the other organic. In a hybrid world, the mutations that take place create two paths, that of chaos and that of the Tao." I choreograph based on the idea of seasons of nature. The dynamic of autumn, winter, and spring transform and integrate with my internal energy ("Qi") which creates a hybrid space with no intelligent words but with gentle fluctuations between breath, environment, and bodily gestures. This research-creation project explores the possibility of co-creation between virtual images and bodily gestures and further brings out the thematic problem: "Does a dancer dance alone?" I consider a solo dancer never dances alone; instead, each medium (space, image, body, and sound) is an organism that evolves, diversifies, and co-creates as soon as it exists. I create new bodily gestures with each media with the guidance of breathing and ‘Qi’, independently of my vision, from environmental media to visual media.
Team & Partners
- Artistic direction|Pr. Chu-Yin Chen (Professor, lab. INREV-AIAC, Paris 8)
- Computer graphics|Isadora Teles de Castro (Ph.D. candidate, lab. INREV-AIAC, Paris 8)
- Sound and choreograph|Hui-Ting Hong (Ph.D. candidate, lab. INREV-AIAC, Paris 8)
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