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Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance

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Publication date31/07/2023
Host publicationxCoAx 2023: Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany
EditorsMiguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
Place of PublicationPortugal
Publisheri2ADS
Pages419-424
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)9789899049529
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventComputation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - Nivre Film & Studio, Weimar, Germany
Duration: 5/07/20237/07/2023
Conference number: 11
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ConferenceComputation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated titlexCoAx
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityWeimar
Period5/07/237/07/23
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NamexCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Publisheri2ADS
ISSN (Print)2183-9069

Conference

ConferenceComputation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated titlexCoAx
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityWeimar
Period5/07/237/07/23
Internet address

Abstract

Figure Infinity is a performance piece that connects a human performer in a self-reflexive network of control and communication with artificial intelligence. The Computer Vision and Large Language Model AI agents collaborate to direct a human performer by generating performance direction in sequence. Human participants play the part of creative, yet invisible labour workers to refine the system. Instead of disguising the human factor at the centre of AI systems, we foreground it, and use it as experimental, aleatoric seeds in the performance. We use feedback between human performers and AI Agents, but making it less an active creative participation by the performer and instead a system of control. The work focuses on themes of accelerated platformisation of labour, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence failure.