But I'm Just a Text

A duo for a dancer and a non-european AI

What if AI was an artist from a third world country?

Dance piece (47’)
2020, ROZENSTRAAT - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam.

Concept, choreography: Marina Orlova
On stage: MingJou Chen, Artificial Intelligence
Programming: Artyom Kuznetsov
Dramaturgical advice: Liza Spivakovskaya
Sound design: Abel Kroon
Scenography: Marina Orlova
Advise: Nikola Knezevic
Camera: Giorgia Piffaretti
Tech producing: Fred Rodrigues

December 2020 at “Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose” gallery in Amsterdam
Created with the support of IDlab (AHK)

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Beginning of the research on how to break existing biases of AI, create an AI-performer and integrate it with dance.

AI in this piece is represented by a real text based neural network that was trained with the data from 15 3-hour interviews with artists coming from third world countries and currently living in the Netherlands.