A performative dance piece for four dancers and four live AI systems that explores the collaboration of human dancers with AI agents. The piece questions the relationship between artistic dance work and artificially intelligent systems in an attempt to understand how systems are trained and how they interpret human input.

AI agents produce realistic-looking content on an assembly line and set seemingly moral boundaries - images of people that could exist, interpretations of (body) political content and the probability of what is to be seen.

What does this mean in the context of movement and dance? Who has the power of interpretation? What does it mean when the generated data set wants to pretend to be a human being as credibly as possible? In the piece Precious Camouflage, four dancers from Charlotte Triebus' New Human Body Society work together with four live AI agents. The autonomous systems can perceive, decide and act independently and influence both the choreography and the live action on stage. The centrepiece of the work is a large installation consisting of 5 LED elements, between which the dancers perform on stage. Precious Camouflage engages the audience in an examination of the pressing questions surrounding the use, meaning, possibilities and dangers of AI.

Under the artistic direction of Charlotte Triebus, Precious Camouflage was created in close collaboration with the MIREVI Lab at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and vobe.digital. read less