Choreodaemonics

The phrase “choreodaemonics” is a contraction of “choreography” (the art of bodily movement through space and time creating meaning) and “daemon” (a background computational process). Within this rubric, this seminar seeks to explore the creative opportunities and political risks of creative production through emerging technologies of AI, robotics and virtual presence. Most urgently, "Choreodaemonics" examines the ideological, technological and aesthetic collisions wherever humans collide with emerging computational systems. Students will consider the histories and processes of creative production and technological development, and ultimately investigate the performative consequences of embodiment by computational agents through robots, avatars, games, software, customer service platforms and social media.