Stones, Axioms, and Poems

Stones, Axioms, and Poems, a live human-machine performance developed through the Human-Machine Improvisation Lab at the University of Washington’s Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) program and presented at The Blanc NYC.

Anomalous Textualities: A showroom of models

Anomalous Textualities re-imagines the Studio Theater as a traversable showroom. Inhabited by seven distinct works, the margins of language and meaning are re-mediated, embodied, and deconstructed through human-machine (mis)translations. Meany Hall—Studio Theatre

Hum Under the Riverstone

Hum Under the Riverstone explores different forms of connection and dialogue that can unfold among various kinds of intelligences: human, natural, and machinic. The title of this project draws inspiration from Édouard Glissant and his concept of archipelagic thinking.

Walls to Bounce Glances

Walls to Bounce Glances merges oral culture as embodied practice and latinx virtualities to reclaim social and technological imaginaries. The domestic is staged and augmented as an ambivalent and fragmented archive that exists between immigration and otherness, the inhospitable and the familiar, all unfolding halfway across mirages of the present and future.

Fictions in Fugue

Fictions in Fugue is an interdisciplinary collaboration by new media artists/performers who come together to activate Meany Theater as a space in fugue and fragmentation. Combining interactive storytelling, Extended Reality technologies and Machine Learning experiments, a series of embodied narratives emerge throughout the evening. Inspired by the short story “The Spiral” by Italo Calvino, formlessness and “indeterminate ways of feeling oneself there” emerge as vignettes of narrative possibilities.  

Scoring Gestures of Meaning 

An Open Lab on Human-Machine Embodied Research

Showcasing the Directed Research Group (DRG) projects, exploring the “untranslatable” space between human performers and complex systems. From XR and biosensors to language models, we have been “re-wilding” technological systems to find new points of meaning through embodiment and performative scores.