“Emergence” by John McCormick, Stephanie Hutchison

Title:

Emergence

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Composer, Director, Choreographer:



• John McCormick -
  • Swinburne University of Technology

Performers:



• Stephanie Hutchison

Symposium:

• ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

Artist Statement:

Emergence by John McCormick, Steph Hutchison and an emerging performing agent, is a dance duet performed between a human dancer and an artifi cially intelligent performing agent. The agent has learnt to dance through a rehearsal process with the dancer, sharing the dancer’s movement and style. Emergence sees the dancer and agent co-creating an interactive semi-improvised dance performance. The neural network based agent uses a motion capture system as its sensory input for understanding the dancer’s movement. Emergence investigates the nature of embodiment, cognition and perception for a digital entity, and the relationships formed through the co-creative process of performance generation between the agent and dancer. Curated by Philippe Pasquier.

Website:

https://johnmccormick.info/emergence/