How can data and technology move our bodies and influence the way we dance? As part of a six-week residency within the framework of the project Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience(MODINA), artists Marko Milić and Uroš Krčadinac developed an installation and performance at tanzhaus nrw. Following the presentation, an artist talk provided an opportunity for the audience to share their impressions and engage in discussion.
The Field serves as a an experimental exploration on what it means to be perceived as human by algorithmic agents. With the growing reliance on artificial intelligence in security applications, the question about which forms of movements are perceived as human by the machine is imminent. What does it mean to move in a way that is categorised as non-human? Can dance be a tool to hide from surveillance, fooling the machine with this inherently human action? The Field/Gaitless moves on the intersection of working with and working against the artificial agent, questioning if and how we dance unrecognised by algorithmic classifying agents. Between cooperation and resistance, how does choreography evolve within the feedback loop of machine and audience? The participatory showing presented by the residency artists shows a preliminary state of the project combining dance, animation and programming. The audience is invited to participate and gamble: Can they outweird the machine and win artworks or money?
The three-year project Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA) unites three academic institutions and five dance houses in six European countries. It aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances and to improve the audience experience through the use of digital technology – with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) research and the interaction with the audience, on-site as well as online.
MODINA is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
