Live Motion Capture Avatar Performance

2021

Purple Jellydisc is a performance work that uses the framework of a guided meditation to trace our extended body within the larger ecosystem. Performed by the artists and mediated through live-puppeteered avatars, the voice of a queer sentient earth leads the audience on a journey that begins with a meditation of scientific musings and concludes with an intimate ecological encounter. The work is composed in part by an artificial intelligence (AI)-system that amalgamates historic ecological texts with Internet-found erotica.

Made in collaboration with Sue Huang. Supported by NEW INC, New Museum, Science Sandbox, Simons Foundation. 


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