When
Thematic Session 2: Software and Synthesis (Monday, 15:40)
Abstract
One of the case studies in our research project on creative-Ai will focus on the automatic generation of dance movements based on Ai models, and the use and implications that may have. I am going to briefly present the underlying system (https://metagen.ai/transflower) and its outputs, and will discuss initial findings from perceptual studies. The core of the presentation, however, will focus on our planned case study that uses that system in the context of traditional dance in Crete. Besides the potential value for dance education, problematic issues of personal identity reflected in dance will central to that case study.
Bio
Andre Holzapfel is Associate Professor of Media Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He holds one PhD degree in Computer Science, and a second PhD degree in Ethnomusicology. His research focuses on the intersection between music and technology, either using computational analyses in studies of music corpora, or investigating the development of technology for creative purposes. He has contributed to the computational analysis of rhythm in the field of Music Information Retrieval, and has focused his ethnographic work on music and dance in Crete, Greece.