Choreomata

Roberto Alonso Trillo is a musician and researcher based in Hong Kong, where he works as an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University. His practice explores the connections between different artistic disciplines, from dance and music to video art and interactive sound installations. His recent work examines networked hybrid music practices endemic to a world increasingly mediated by AI and machine learning. His multipronged practice-based and -led research, operating at the intersection between philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies, spans areas as diverse as a post-structuralist reconsideration of musical workhood and authorship, technologically enhanced string pedagogy, gesture analysis, and interface development. Roberto is the author of Death and (Re)Birth of J. S. Bach (Routledge) and has published in journals such as Leonardo, Organised Sound, and Music Education Research. He is a co-founder, with his colleague Peter AC Nelson, of the MetaCreativity Lab at Hong Kong Baptist University. His long-time partnership with Marek Poliks – DisintegratorAI – has led to the publication of several CDs, journal articles, and the exhibition of interactive artworks in international venues. Marek Poliks is an artist, engineer, and theorist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He works with machine learning as applied to sound, digital media, robotics, and sculpture. Marek leads technology at the design firm Polytope, where he builds interactive infrastructure for clients like the Dubai Future Foundation. His long-time partnership with Roberto Alonso – DisintegratorAI – has led to CDs for NEOS and Creotz Ediciones, articles for Leonardo and Organised Sound, a GAN-and Transformer-driven raw audio synthesis engine (‘Demiurge’), a real-time behavior-responsive data interface (‘Archon’), and two soft robots (‘Hydra’ and ‘Polyp’), and this book. Marek has a PhD from Harvard, an ASCAP award in music journalism, and a career as an artist exhibiting around the globe.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Contributors

A. Performing Artificiality, Performing Intelligence

Subjectivity



0-Degree Plane of Neuroelectronic Continuity: AI & Psychosocial Evaporation

Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo

2. Performing the Automated Image

Anna Munster & Ned Rossiter

3. Negative Aesthetics: AI and Non-Performance

Luciana Parisi

4. Performance, Performativity, and Subjectivity at the Intersection of Art and Digital Cultures

Barbara Bolt

Creativity

5. Performing Creativity: Text-to-Image Synthesis and the Mimicry of Artistic Subjectivity

Keith Tilford

6. Galatea Reloaded: Imagination Inside-Out Imagine

Reza Negarestani

Representation

7. Intelligent Company: Co-creative AI as Anamnesis

Jonathan Impett

8. Autonomy, Intention, Performativity: Navigating the AI Divide

Jon McCormack

9. Interaction Grammars: Beyond the Imitation Game

AA Cavia

B. Choreomatic Bestiary

Encounter

10. Choreomata
Sofian Audry

11. The Musicality of Imperfection

Davor Vincze

12. Robot Choreography, Choreorobotics, and Humanist Technology: A Conversation between Dr. Madeline Gannon and Dr. Ken Goldberg

Catie Cuan

Proliferation

13. Ars Autopoetica: On Authorial Intelligence, Generative Literature, and the Future of Language

Sasha Stiles

14. AI, Architecture, and Performance: Walt Disney Concert Hall Dreams

Refik Anadol & Pelin Kivrak

15. Performing AI-Generated Theater Plays

Klára Vosecká & Tomáš Musil & Rudolf Rosa

Annihilation

16. Identity Dissolution: Using Artificial Intelligence for Artistic Exploration of Identity Models

Alexander Schubert

17. Noise and Subjectivity in the Era of Machine Learning

Mattin

After-Body

18. Descendent: AI and the Body beyond Hybridization

Roberto Alonso Trillo

19. Descendent: Understanding the Digital Production Process from Human Interpretation to Algorithmic Interpolation to AI Inference

Peter Nelson

20. Ghosts of the Hidden Layer

People & Things

Jennifer Walshe