2024 Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology, InSpace, The University of Edinburgh

2023 xCoAx Conference

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Concept and AI implementation by Louis McHugh

Interaction and Sound by Jung In Jung

Dance Performance by Alex McCabe

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​Funded by Creative Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

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Figure Infinity is an audio-visual performance project that connects human performers in a self-reflexive network of control and communication with Artificial Intelligence. It responds to recent narratives surrounding “AI”, which largely obscure the collective human endeavour that produced the data these systems are built on, by inviting audiences to partake in the development of a real-time performance data set. Encountered uncannily through absurdity and play, audiences can experience some of the creative possibilities and limitations of AI systems. 

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The prompts used to create the performance direction were carefully crafted by the artists using ChatGPT and gpt4-vision with the idea of “prompt engineering” being seen as a creative skill in its own right. For the performance, the process of generating performance direction and realisation was shown by adding some theatrical elements and metaphors to demonstrate the human labour often hidden in the field of AI and the video feedback loop which confuses AI.