youAI: train, adapt, perform – the dance-and-word performance
To generate data for training artificial intelligence systems, digital machines measure us – that is our human behaviors. But with every click, like, or selfie, Artificial Intelligence (AI) also trains us by demanding certain behaviors.
In youAI, we investigate the current equalization frenzy between humans and machines. At the intersection of technology, words, and contemporary dance, the performance addresses the newly emerging human-machine relationship: training.
4 dancers, 1 actress, 2 engineers, 2 robots.
As part of the performance, H.A.U.S. invites the audience to a dialogue. With changing experts from the fields of AI, robotics, society and art, H.A.U.S. and the audience will delve into the many topics dealt with in the piece.
Premiered @ imagetanz festival 2023
Press:
Der Standard https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000144568352/die-wiener-gruppe-haus-streut-bei-imagetanz-zweifel-am-ki?ref=rss
The Gap thegap.at/imagetanz-2023-5-highlights-aus-dem-festivalprogramm/
FAQ faq-magazine.com/human-in-the-loop/
Trailer
Glimpses
Events
Premiere Fri. 17.3.2023, 20:00 – Performance
You, Society and AI – Talk
Michaela Pfadenhauer (Universtiät Wien, Soziologie),Oliver Schürer, Eva-Maria Kraft, Christoph Hubatschke.
Sat. 18.3.2023, 20:00 – Performance
You, Arts and AI – Talk
Margarete Jahrmann (Die Angewandte, arts-based research), Jesse de Pagter (Science and technology studies, curator), Oliver Schürer, Eva-Maria Kraft, Christoph Hubatschke.
Sun. 19.3.2023, 20:00 – Performance
You, Robots and AI – Talk
Christopher Frauenberger (Universität Salzburg, human-computer interaction), Darja Stoeva (Technische Universität Wien, human-robot interaction), Oliver Schürer, Eva-Maria Kraft, Christoph Hubatschke.
Festival program brut theater https://brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2023/03/H.A.U.S
On stage
Choreographie, Tanz: Eva-Maria Kraft
Actress: Linda Pichler
Trainees: Florian Decker, Simeon Ohlsen, Céline Weigt
Tech Supervision, Human-Robot-Interaction: Maria Mußner, Darja Stoeva
2 Humanoide Robots Modell Pepper
Credits
Concept, Artistic Direction: Eva-Maria Kraft, Oliver Schürer, Christoph Hubatschke
Text, textbook, audience dialog: Oliver Schürer, Christoph Hubatschke
DANCR development AI: Johann Petrak (OFAI), Brigitte Krenn (OFAI), Sridhar Bulusu
youAI development AI: Sridhar Bulusu
Stageing AI: Oliver Schürer
HRI development: Darja Stoeva, Clara Haider, Helena Frijns
Video, documentation: Michael Loizenbauer
Light: Jon Maier
Music: Rupert Huber, Thomas A. Pichler
Dramaturgical consulting: Nikolaus Selimov
Production: Eva-Maria Kraft
youAI
On the other side, the training of an artificial intelligence system, based on the commonly used machine learning paradigm, means systematization of kinds of data by attaching arbitrary human descriptions of the data to the data, to allow this machine to learn to interpret that kind of data, according to those descriptions. This is archived by forming, proving, and predicting patterns. Arbitrary standardizations and all kinds of prejudices, and biases are the results of this form of training. The ubiquitous use of artificial intelligence not only reproduces these discriminations, it reinforces them. youAI addresses the usually ignored somatic-material aspects of artificial intelligence as well as the so fare untold entanglements of AIs with human bodies and movements. With the piece, we explore possibilities for a different AI and we experiment with training processes at the intersection of technology, words, and dance.
Eine Koproduktion von H.A.U.S. und brut Wien.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und des BMKÖS.
