Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance

Louis McHugh, Jung In Jung, Deniz Johns

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Abstract

Figure Infinity is a performance piece that connects a human performer in a self-reflexive network of control and communication with artificial intelligence. The Computer Vision and Large Language Model AI agents collaborate to direct a human performer by generating performance direction in sequence. Human participants play the part of creative, yet invisible labour workers to refine the system. Instead of disguising the human factor at the centre of AI systems, we foreground it, and use it as experimental, aleatoric seeds in the performance. We use feedback between human performers and AI Agents, but making it less an active creative participation by the performer and instead a system of control. The work focuses on themes of accelerated platformisation of labour, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence failure.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany
EditorsMiguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
Publisheri2ADS
Pages419-424
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789899049529
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2023
Event11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - Weimar, Germany
Duration: 5 Jul 20237 Jul 2023
Conference number: 11th
https://xcoax.org/

Publication series

NamexCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Publisheri2ADS
ISSN (Print)2183-9069

Conference

Conference11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated titlexCoAx 2023
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityWeimar
Period5/07/237/07/23
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Keywords

  • AI performance
  • Feedback loop
  • Human-assisted AI
  • Failure
  • Data workers
  • Invisibilised labour
  • Platformisation
  • Algorithmic management

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  • Figure Infinity

    Jung, J. I. (Artist), McHugh, L. (Artist) & McCabe, A. (Artist), 10 May 2024

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