Projects
Intelligent Holograms
Intelligent Holograms
Intelligent Holograms - Performance & Community
Involving research into the development of immersive holographic intelligence in regard to the performing arts (especially dance|music), and its possible significance to the wider community and various modes of audience perception [i.e. how observers can actively shape their environments through immersive technologies that are truly responsive at a cellular level of interaction].
This would include the possibilities of performative interaction between the (limited) physicality of the human body [a ballerina in this case] and the [seemingly unlimited] virtual physicality|autonomy of a so-called intelligent holographic construct trained on that same body. Investigate what kinds of hologram technology already exists within this context and how can they be applied and developed.
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£5,000
Research into the development of immersive holographic intelligence in regard to the performing arts, and its possible significance to the wider community.
Aims of the project
The activity will involve preliminary research into the development of immersive holographic intelligence in regard to the performing arts (especially dance | music), and its possible significance to the wider community and various modes of audience perception (i.e. how observers can actively shape their environments through immersive technologies that are truly responsive at a cellular level of interaction).
This would include the possibilities of performative interaction between the (limited) physicality of the human body (a ballerina in this case) and the (seemingly unlimited) virtual physicality | autonomy of a so-called intelligent holographic construct trained on that same body.
This would include investigation into what kinds of hologram technology already exists within this context and how can they be applied and developed, and testing out some practical ideas in regard to new hologramatic technology concerning matters of intelligence|machine learning and haptic perception.
Hopefully, this would include taking the first steps in constructing an artificial intelligence engine based upon the specific movements of a dancer’s body and a specific set of electronically generated sounds, and an exploration of the immersive possibilities in regard to the ways in which an audience can interact or experience this human | hologramatic environment (i.e.what benefits can this have, outside of a performative one, and how can this be measured?).
Meet the artists
Andrew Leslie Hooker
Lead Artist
he/him
Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily as a composer, photographer and filmmaker and a PhD researcher in new music at Leiden University Academy of Performing & Creative Arts. The foremost areas of investigation throughout his work are those of loop theory and feedback systems, especially within the field of perceptive definitions of self and society within cultural, historical and socio-political contexts.
The principle tendency in his working practice is the constant interruption and negation of so-called absolutes. This typically takes the form of interpretation and translation (be it in music or photography etc.), wherein an apparent given (i.e. a particular sound, or part of a landscape etc.), is reacted to as objectively as possible, and then randomly realigned to generate further interpretations, and so on. The nature of this practice can be called semantic fluidity which investigates the idea of multiple, possibly infinite meanings of single objects or events.
Andrew is also very interested in certain forms of extreme nihilism (an absence or crisis of meaning) in regard to the work of art, and the notion of artists workspaces as sacred sites.
Melissa Pasut
Dancer and Choreographer
she/her
Melissa is a trained ballerina who in this current period is investigating the pointe shoe through the cultural lens of “ankoku butō” (暗黒舞踏), a Japanese avant garde dance practice, for a PhD at Coventry University.
In regard to this project, it will be Melissa’s dance movements that will be captured and analysed in order to create a prototype AI hologram.
