How does knowledge move? How do bodies, materials, concepts and spaces interact and dance together in the dynamic co-creation of knowledge?
Berlin-based choreographer Irina Demina explores the potential of transdisciplinary dialogue, where artistic exploration and innovative technologies converge to spark new possibilities and creative collaborations.
By reactivating traditional forms such as folk dances and placing them in dialogue with artificial intelligence, the audience is invited to witness and explore how heritage can be rethought through contemporary technologies as a way to reinvent modes of collectivity.
This performative encounter gives insight into Irina Demina’s collaboration with computer scientist Dr. Dávid Samu to develop and train an algorithm on dozens of folk dances from around the world, allowing it to generate synthesized hybrid choreographies. This not only suggests new perspectives on how AI can contribute to reimagining inherited bodily practices, but also envisions dance as a method of modelling and exercising alternative futures.
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Irina Demina is currently artist in residence at Humboldt University Berlin, collaborating closely with the Office for Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange with Society at the Centre for Cultural Techniques (ZfK). This event complements the panel on Innovation, AI and the Arts of the 4th symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership: Innovation – pathways to societal impact and is delivered in collaboration with TORCH, University of Oxford and DANSOX.
This event takes place in The Pavilion, St Hilda's College, Oxford OX4 1DY.
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