I R I N I  K A L A I T Z I D I

2024

Occupied with Traffic

riding a bike

human action recognition

analogue classification

A performance inviting the audience to engage in a human action recognition practice.

2024

Feeding Birds

dance watching as bird watching

human action recognition

AI classification

A performance where human dance watchers attempt to label movements similarly to what data annotators would do to feed an AI movement classifier.

2023

Prompts: Engineering Answers or Fabricating Little Dances

prompts

scores

invitations

Prints of choreographic scores meant to live hung on a wall, folded among books, rolled under a bed, or captured on a phone.

2023

Dance, Optimisation and Communicating Vulnerabilities

generative AI

distorted dancing body

resisting optimisation

A lecture performance about the lure of the image of the dancing body within the current digital climate.

2021 - 2022

As Uncanny As a Body

generative AI

distorted dancing body

resisting optimisation

A video work documenting the constant transition of a dancing body from an abled human state into a glitched, injured, unspecified one.

2021

yaGrid

video conference call

liminal space

stick figures

Yet another grid. A video work hosting a speculative dance coming-together of human and non-human participants.

2020 - 2021

Speculative Annotation on Human Dance Improvisations and their Digital Configuration

dance annotation

other-othan-human bodies

blobs

A research article introducing speculative annotation of dance and exploring bodies' possible becomings beyond their human materiality.

2020 - 2021

Liminalia

collective writing

collective making

sci-fi ethnografies

Written and video contribution to the multimedia zine "Extra-Terresrial Ethnographies of the Future-Present", where tracking teams of the future documented their findings of planet Earth.

2019 - 2020

DeepDancing

body instrument

movement sonification

motion tracking

A research project exploring the body as a musical instrument that triggers a rich soundscape based on its posture and positioning in space.

2019

Within the Vibrant Assemblage

assemblage theory

vibrant matter

stick figures

A dance performance of human and nonhuman participants who share a particular degree of dance aptitude and endurance.