As Uncanny As a Body
AI generated video
2021
Athens, Greece
Posters of work, @ Irini Kalaitzidi, 2021
As Uncanny As a Body is a video work which documents the constant transition of a dancing body from an abled human state into a glitched, injured, unspecified one.
Based on the development and use of a GAN machine learning model, the visual data of a dancer are processed, and figures that manifest this in-between state are produced. What happens when AI is not used in order to optimise the performance of the dancer but rather to generate body types and movements lying beyond fixed standards and classifications? How does a poorly trained AI model perceive the body and how does it affect our perception of it? Does it remain human in all its smudges, cracks and distortions?
Extract from video
C R E D I T S
Concept | Choreography | Tech development: Irini Kalaitzidi
Performer: Maria Vourou
Sound artist: Nikos Tsolis
Filming and Digital media support: Stathis Doganis
Special thanks to Daphne Dragona, Orestis Korakitis, Sakis Kostis and studio ΠΛΑΤΩ.
As Uncanny As a Body’ was created with the support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program by ARTWORKS (GR).
As Uncanny As a Body in Stanley Picker Gallery, @ Asimina Giagoudaki, 2022
Exhibited in:
- - Something Else III, Cairo Off Biennale, Cairo, Nov-Dec 2023
- - 26th Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) Conference, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, Sep 2022
- - Bodies, machines and smart synergies: Two panel discussions on art and artificial intelligence, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, June 2022
More on Medium text by Daphne Dragona - - Body, Space & Technology (BST) journal, Published within the 2022 issue
- - Allied - Kyiv Biennial, Part of Room to Bloom Pavillion, Kyiv, Oct - Nov 2021