F_AI_L production 2024 dossier
Dance and AI, full-fledged performance and installation open to the public.
Dance and AI project that questions the fallibility of AI when it confronts and dialogues with the body, through the interactive comparison between standardized and unusual movements.
video test 002 (residency Arts Fabrik, Montpellier) 04, 2024
The project has been granted by the CNC (French National Center of Cinematography – Écritures Numériques Auteurs Jeu Vidéo & Création Immersive)
An unlikely dialogue with an AI, a digital creature trained with a database consisting of a very large number of recordings of short, danced videos.
The image transforms according to the unusual, misaligned movements… a body to explore.
Words serve both as an interpretation of what the machine captures and as invitations to go along with it.
The “body” of this creature is everywhere in the setup.
F_AI_L is capable of interpreting the smallest movements, fragments of behavior, all kinds of gestures and attitudes, intentions. An invitation to explore other ways of moving, to explore states of the body, etc., to develop a relationship according to your creative inspiration.
F_AI_L is a performative installation where the movements of a spectator are captured and interpreted by an AI.
The more confident the AI is in recognizing the current movement, the simpler and more stereotypical the representation of the body becomes. A body to be exhibited.
Conversely, the more the movements deviate from the usual, the more the AI makes mistakes and proposes numerous interpretations, as it is unable to discern the smallest variations.
The representation of the body becomes more complex and closer to human.
A body to be explored.
The dance in this project is inspired by a thorough research on everyday gestures and attitudes.
A performance initiates each presentation.
The spectators are invited in turn to participate and live an experience of “somaesthesia”, increasing their perception of bodily sensations, such as limb position and proprioception.
As they step outside of normative movement frameworks, they are encouraged to explore new forms of movements. Will it be a body to exhibit or a body to explore?
It is the relationship with the present AI that will determine it…
The “F_AI_L” project highlights the fallibility of the AI used in this project, via a “lived” movement and not simply a “reproduced” one.
With:
Jean-Marc Matos, choreographer
Clément Barbisan, artist programmer
Evane Duguet, dancer, performer
