Performance + artist talk: youAI-I3-01
H.A.U.S. transdisciplinary research: Eva-Maria Kraft, Linda Pichler, Oliver Schürer, Darja Stoeva, Robot Machina
A word and dance performance discussing the training of so-called artificial intelligence systems. Our behavior in digital media is being used to train AI’s ever more precisely, sometimes subtly, sometimes quite obviously.
youAI is the latest research cycle by transdisciplinary H.A.U.S.
On stage Dancer I3, an actress, an engineer, the robot and the AI. But who is training whom?
Eva-Maria Kraft is a contemporary dancer, dance teacher and choreographer for humans and robots. She runs her studio RAUM für TANZ in Vienna and teaches internationally for beginners up to professional dancers. Her artistic projects move at the interface of different art fields and sciences, explore (artificial) bodies and are based on the real-time composition of movement. As part of the transdisciplinary research group H.A.U.S. she deals with Artificial Intelligence and choreographs and performs with humanoid robots.
www.evamaria-kraft.at
Linda Pichler ist Schauspielerin und derzeit an verschiedenen Theaterhäusern, sowie in der freien Szene, in Wien und Niederösterreich tätig. Außerdem ist sie als “Cornelia” in der Amazon-Prime Serie “LUDEN” zu sehen. Mit dem Stück “youA.I.” tritt sie zum ersten Mal mit der Forschungsgruppe H.A.U.S. in Kooperation.
Darja Stoeva is doing a PhD on body motion in human-robot interactions. In H.A.U.S. her main role is programming robot (Pepper).
Oliver Schürer is curator, author and Senior Scientist. He is researching in and developing theory and techno-aesthetic experiments on humanoid robots in Architecture and Urban Spaces.
Part of Autopoietic Encounters