Publication “The Aesthetisation of Performance Improvisation” by Lisa Moravec 

A contribution to Liam Jarvis and Aneta Mancewicz (eds.) Contemporary Theatre Review journal, special issue: AI in Performance-Making: New Frontiers in the Humanities (publication in Autumn 2026)

Keywords: 

embodied AI, humanoid robots, Rodney Brooks, Hans Moravec, H.A.U.S., performance theories of bodily intelligence, improvisation. 

Concearning the work of H.A.U.S., the text very interestingly is defining a position for it’s approach to critique:

“The improvisational approach to working with humanoid AI robots and dance of H.A.U.S. adds a fourth performance model of critiquing the infrastructural incorporation of generative AI technologies … generates new scientific and aesthetic research by improvising (model IV) with AI technologies across dance, philosophy, robotics, and AI.”