[ AI ] dancer (2020)

[ AI ] dancer is a research between dance and artificial intelligence that explores the potentialities of training a computer program through recorded dance improvisation. Sombreff creates an algorithm which is trained by Biskas’ skeleton tracking data out of a large database of dance video material divided into numerous short movement sequences (samples https://vimeo.com/401258560, https://vimeo.com/401145957).

The algorithm predicts what is the best follow up sequence in relation to the previous one, re-composing the dancer’s improvisations based on its training. The training visually translates the information by taking into consideration the keypoints of the skeleton in response to music (https://vimeo.com/401142202?fbclid=IwAR25sUSHoMESAIoqp4zt39SUBT_SrVcQLybEMNlThRDf75p2OREMCjtaWL8).
 
Concept & Performance: Evangelos Biskas
Creative Coding & Video: Mauricio van der Maessen de Sombreff
Financially supported by PLAN
[ AI ] dancer was shown in the online version of Festival Cement 2020