Artificial Intimacy

In ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY (AI), the SHIBUI collective, together with the ZHdK, Coventry University and the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, is looking for ways to try out new forms of indirect direct physical and artistic collaboration with digital self-images.

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For this purpose, the dancer Emi Miyoshi interacts with a digital mirror body that has been trained to imitate dance movement sequences using machine learning processes. At the same time, the dancer tries to find out how she can use the mirror body to influence sound and images.

How is a physical dialogue with a digital abstraction of oneself possible? What happens to the human instincts, affects, reactions, emotions that an artificial intelligence can neither calculate nor imitate? What happens over the period of mutual learning and training? Do you approach, do you develop a common language? Which appropriations & alienations arise? What happens passively and preconsciously, what flows automatically…