UnderConstruction
Created and presented by BLOB during RAIVE (The Algorithmic Gaze and CREATIE) at Royal Conservatory Antwerp/DE SINGEL International Arts Centre - September ‘24, Antwerp, Belgium under the guidance and mentorship of Işıl Bıçakçı and Frederik De Bleser, Umut Eldem, Giusy Caruso.
BLOB artists: Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy, Biyi Zhu, Sophie Waller and Andres Milan.
‘UnderConstruction,’ is a performance project which uses both the structures of artificial intelligence and the technology itself (Max/MSP) to investigate an encounter between the body and technology. By mapping the space using body capture programming we have created a system where each movement from the performer triggers a new sound in the space.
Photography by: Boris Bruegel
Four performers search to try and discover what their role is in the space and how their presence is both restricted and released by this connection to the machine. They realise that the computer only recognises the biggest body and they fight to take control over the system which ultimately pulls them apart before they realise and ultimately destroy the system.
This iteration was a site-specific work which mapped sounds of the DeSingel building to areas of the performance space. When a performer moved to one of these points on the map, a sound was activated, which consequently triggered movement in the other performers. Inspired by the primary framework of AI, which creates an output from an input, we explored what happens when the body is entered into this framework.
