The performance is an extractive enquiry, juxtaposing the labor of dance and the work of machines, both physical and computational, into a critical narrative. The performance includes Lydia Touliatou (dancer), Esther Calderon Morales (sound composition and performer) and Samir Bhowmik (narrator). Background Machine Learning (ML) and data analysis is done by Minh Anh Nguyen on Mudras, that are gestural movements in Bharatnatyam, a classical Indian dance.

Samir Bhowmik is a Helsinki-based multi-disciplinary artist, architect and scholar. He is currently an Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2022-27) at the Academy of Fine Arts (Uniarts Helsinki) where he teaches and explores extractivism & ecology through film, installation and performance. His ongoing project ‘Terra-Performing’examines extractivism through intelligent performance research. 

Project Page: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/te... 

Contestations.AI Transdisciplinary Symposium on AI, Human Rights and Warfare, The Train Factory (Konepaja), Helsinki, October 23, 2024. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

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