(KNCDC) Dance x Technology Prototype
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC) has run the Dance x Technology Creative Lab for four years. This project gathers together experts of dance and technology. They reflect on the technological era and explore the link between the arts and technology. In collaboration with KNCDC, SPAF’s workshop festival shares artists’ prototypes from the perspective of the arts and technology, the main direction of the event. Taking place under the theme of “posthuman and posthumanism,” it will be an occasion to delve into how the arts and technology could be connected in this era of technology.
KNCDC <What I Sense in the Matter> LG Arts Center Seoul, LG SIGNATURE Hall, 10.17(THU)-19(SAT)
They develop [Human-Robot Movement_Model 1] through this creative lab. In this era of posthumanism,
humans and robots are getting close to “dynamic coexistence.” Under these circumstances, they reflect on
what movements and lives humans will share with robots, which are new dynamic actors or mediators. And
they make a performance out of this. The Human-Robot Movement Lab has IVAAIU City and Jeong Pilgyun
(choreographer/dancer) who collaborate with Shin Gyomyung, Yang Jaju, Baek Jinhyuk and Lee Haneul, guest
artists/dancers. They participate in the project either as “those controlling robots” or “those moving
with robots.” In this way, they tell us about the movements of humans and robots.
They develop three different prototypes which contain stories about the human-robot movement:
“Existential Reflection on Humans and Robots,” “Blurring the Vague, Cognitive Boundaries between Humans
and Robots” and “Collision between Logic and Illogic in the Human-Robot Movement.” The artists will
produce a performance by combining these prototypes.
With her team members, choreographer Hwang Soohyun invites AI as a collaborator. In this project, AI is
the choreographer’s collaborator and it is not about suggesting collaboration between humans and
technology or a new choreographic system. Based on the hypothesis that the choreographic scene is a
complex system of human and non-human groups, bodies, affectiveness and materials, they experiment with
how to establish the whole process of research, rehearsals, creation and criticisms by means of
performative technology.
This is how they design a prototype. First, they search for “choreographic languages” in order to make a
“common language” shared with AI. After that, they list and categorize these languages through the
archiving methodology. Second, they create AI agents and build a collaboration system for different
agents in a virtual space. Then, they use an AI program to make specific prompts. Third, they give shape
to their choreographic process in a real space through ”meta-collaboration“ between the AI product and
choreographer. Building on discourses and practices, the project explores how an autonomous agent’s
choreographic realm works for a choreographic system via collaboration between collective intelligence
and technology and how it influences ”choreographic thinking.“
