Motion Prompting: What if AI understands human movement better than we do?
Current generative AI has us used to crafting text prompts. What if our movements and gestures became the language we use to communicate with AI? In this event, we’re exploring a future of “Motion Prompting”. What will happen when AI enters our physical world?
Motion prompting is transforming the way AI understands and reacts to human movement. By tracking gestures and identifying patterns in motion, AI systems are opening up new possibilities for creativity, and gaining a broader understanding. From decoding subtle emotional cues to predicting complex movement sequences, this technology is set to revolutionise fields as diverse as healthcare, performing arts, and human-computer interaction. For example, an AI system could detect a change in your walk, identifying an injury long before you notice it yourself.
This event brings together two artists, a technologist, a founder and a researcher for an in-depth discussion on the communication between AI and our body. Through the lens of two innovative, groundbreaking S+T+ARTS AIR projects: SYMBODY by Natan Sinigaglia and Monolith by Uncharted Limbo Collective, we’ll explore how AI interprets and responds to human movement. We will unveil the current capabilities of motion prompting technology and speculate on its potential futures. What are the limitations of AI tools that are based on language as the central form of communication? What is a “human body” for a neural network? How can AI analyse movement quality? And which motions could ‘hack’ the machine?
Join us to explore how AI can understand, create, and change human movement. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, a movement practitioner or simply curious, this event will deepen your understanding of generative AI. Come ready to move, think, and imagine as we discuss the potential and challenges of a world where our bodies become the interface to AI.
Can’t join us in person in Eindhoven? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your laptop or phone? All of our events are hybrid so you can also get a ticket to join online via our livestream website.
🗓 Date: Thursday 10 October 2024
📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House, Torenallee 40-06, 5617 BD, Eindhoven
Emma Harvey is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies methods for assessing and improving the fairness of sociotechnical systems. Her ongoing research uses interdisciplinary algorithm auditing approaches to understand and mitigate biases in college admissions, chatbots, and motion capture technology. She will be speaking about open source libraries of movement data, trained on dead ‘average’ white male bodies.
Natan Sinigaglia
Natan Sinigaglia is an artist with a background in music, contemporary dance, and real-time graphics and is researching the automated tracking of correlations between movements and sounds. His primary interest lies in multimodality.
Uncharted Limbo Collective
Uncharted Limbo Collective is a collective of creative coders and visual artists researching how human movements are categorized. They are training AI models with complex movements from dancers and are working towards a performance between a dancer and a digital being.
Rodolfo Groenewoud - van Vliet
Rodolfo Groenewoud – van Vliet is the co-founder of In4Art – an independent Institute for Art-Driven Innovation, established in 2015. His interests lie in exploring and prototyping possibilities of technologies and economics that will influence the shorter and longer-term futures of food, manufacturing, health and biodiversity. He invented and practices the Art-Driven Innovation methodology which currently drives over 75 international experimental programs and projects involving art, science, technology, and industry. He is also the representative of the Regional S+T+ARTS Centre in the Netherlands, running the AIR program.
