META: NOTES FROM A DANCER FROM INSIDE A DUET WITH AN AI AGENT

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• ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Generation and Human Factors

• META: NOTES FROM A DANCER FROM INSIDE A DUET WITH AN AI AGENT

• Professor Kim Vincs
• John McCormick
• Stephanie Hutchison

• (Long paper)

  Keywords: Dance, External Frameworks, Ex-quiry, Artificial Intelligence, Performance Agents.

  The collaborative process is central to dance practice, as is the desire to engage both somatically and conceptually with frameworks beyond the body/self. This paper proposes a framework of ‘ex-quiry’ to describe this process in contemporary dance practice. We draw both on the long history of external frameworks in dance practice, and upon new experimental opportunities for ‘ex-quiry’ provided by digital technologies such as an artificially intelligent performance agent. The concept ‘ex-quiry’, has been articulated within a series of solo practices by Australian dance artist, Steph Hutchison.

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