Irini is a dance artist who explores critical and caring ways of engaging with the human body in relation to computational technologies. Through speculation and playfulness, she examines how machine vision and machine learning (ML) systems shape our understanding of the body ~ its capacities, vulnerabilities, and limitations. Her work operates between staged performance, video, performance lectures and choreographic scores, and has been presented internationally in art biennials, independent spaces, clubs and bigger venues such as Onassis Stegi, Somerset House and the V&A.
Parallel to her artistic practice, Irini works as a PhD researcher and a lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London. In her academic research, she investigates the way machine learning classification systems choreograph realities by attributing labels to bodies and actions. In her practice as an educator, she is teaching across the BSc Digital Arts Computing and the MA/MFA Computational Arts. Her primary [and favourite] modules are Machine Learning for Artistic Practice, where she introduces ML principles and initiates critical discussions around AI, and Choreography as Hacking, where she introduces choreographic thinking as a way to hack a computational practice.
Irini is based 2/3 in London (UK) and 1/3 in Tinos island (GR).
She can be reached by email: eri_dot_kalaitzidi_at_gmail_dot_com
photo @ stathis_d