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Testing new AI video workflows with overhead footage of the wonderful @majellabess and @madi_dyke intertwining.

Sharing unfinished fragments as they develop because this process is deeply iterative — contrary to what some people imagine about working with machine vision. You try something, it breaks, and the next version emerges from that misunderstanding. That’s chance procedure if you ask me.

I’m especially interested in the moments where the strange translations begin to feel less like errors and more like part of the choreography itself.

More soon from the process. Thinking it may need color though… there’s already so much grayscale in the visual language of tech. What do you think?

Directed by @khfdance
For @hyperreallabs
Computational media by @classicshimmy + @khfdance
Created at @onassis.onxers / Co-choreography: @majellabess @madi_dyke
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#AIVideo #DanceAndTechnology #ComputationalMedia #ExperimentalPerformance HyperrealLabs

More from our our recent Breaking Counterpoint show in DC @danceplacedc with @liminaldancefilmfestivalLooking forward to our upcoming @mdffparkway residency in Baltimore this fall and looking forward to continuing our research into realtime media @onassis.onx here in NYC this coming year.

Conceived by guitarist and producer @zaneforshee with composer @wendelpatrickofficialmusic. Choreographed by @orangegrovedance, with real-time interactive computational media by @mingyong_art + @classicshimmy, direction by @khfdance through @hyperreallabs, lighting by @pfalvi, and danced by @london_likethecity @elan.robinson11 @levi_coy_ and Colette Krogol.

Really grateful to be in the room with this beautiful team.

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#BreakingCounterpoint #danceandnewmedia#touchdesigner #realtime

More from our first play session @onassis.onx with wonderful dance artists @renabutler and @olivialburgess with @hyperreallabs network designed by @classicshimmy I love the potential for these choreographic interfaces to score improvisation!
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Play-testing time in the @onassis.onx with the luminous @renabutler and @renabutler
Shimmy Boyle designed a wild new real-time AI tethered photography setup for our new studio @hyperreallabs , and we’ve been experimenting with how it might live inside performance. I’ve been using this interface in my ongoing new media piece Cyborg Mirror- super greatful to access to space so we can research new dramaturgical possibilities for this work- which takes time!
It’s one thing to see machine vision transforming the body in real time. It’s another thing again to imagine an audience seeing their own image returned through a technology that is re-authoring them.
I’m interested in AI aesthetics beyond spectacle and slop. The trash imagery. The uncanny residue. The mutant glamour. The strange ghosts. I want to look at these images critically, but I also want to admit that I’m drawn to their ugliness and wild magic.
The questions get deep quickly. Who gets to author these technologies? What kinds of bodies do they recognize? What ideas of beauty and power do they reproduce? And how do artists get a seat at the table in terms of authorship before these systems become invisible infrastructure in live performance and beyond?
Let’s make some dances!
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#HyperrealLabs#OnassisONX #RealtimeAI #touchdesigner #danceandnewmedia