🕸

Bodies in Digital Transition

9th Sept 2026

Reading list

  • I’m a fan by Sheena Patel

Table 7. Choreography

Moderator: April Wei-West

Chris Tegho, Rigging the Machinic Body: Motion Capture, Error, and Co-Embodiment in AI-Mediated Performance

  • Link to Clem?
  • Link to Irini
  • Rigging as part of process, politically significant because it assumes bodies to be comparible (which body plan counts as recognisable and controllable)
  • Unusable bodies hold most of the repair costs
  • T pose practical but restrictive
  • RigAnything / One Model to rig them all - share with Irini, new datasets with skeletons that don’t respect the T pose
  • Christegho.info/chris

Angela Ka Ki Lee & Chris Tegho, Spatial Choreography of Grounded Computation

  • Big tech are becoming energy companies (monopolies)
  • Link to Helen
  • Beautiful illustrations, thinking through drawing
  • Dancing with the ground, body in mediation with the ground in choreography
  • Francis Elise, Mumbashi, video of child in tire
    • Game has rules shaped by terrain
    • Game as counter infrastructure
  • Share with Irini
  • Pina Bausch!
  • How to be within the loop (as a choreographer)
  • Follow up, really interesting

Mirei Yazawa, Enacting Playful Exploration Through Wearable Embodiment: Body as Instrument, Sound as Action

  • Look up enactivism
    • Cognition as embodied action
  • Awareness chabing attention and mediation of the information about the body
  • Plasticity and malleability of the body
  • Actions for supervises after meetings, a meeting form
  • Timings for meetings
  • Getting proper references, and understanding how to reference
  • Shouting out the library more
  • Did the industrial action affect this?

Table 10 Human/Machine Relations

Moderator: Jiaying Ma

Kun Fang, MANIFESTO: FEMALE VS. FEMALE The First Female Mutation of the Glitch Body

  • Hybridity, cyborg
  • Have you played with edge (canny edge) contour detection
  • Have you looked at anti serveillance makeup/wearables
    • Hito Steyerl How to disapear
    • Zack Blas

I Nadja Verena Marcin “#SOPHYGRAY”: Performing the Feminist Voice Bot as a Distributed Machinic Body

  • Web based and community
  • www.sophygray.com
  • She and her pronouns is interesting for a piece of software
  • Alexa, Siri femme (Claude, ChatGPT masc)?
  • Why Sophy - Sophia from Hanson Robotics 2017
    • First internationally renown architect (female specifically?)
  • Full surrogacy now - female machine
  • Awareness machine - not a replacement and always biased

Table 12 Artificial Others & Authorship

Moderator: Liv Owens

Bogdan Babenko, I as Other: Conversational AI, Self-Reflection, and Possible Existenz

  • What does dasein mean?
  • Between knowing and not-knowing, reflection and action, ‘one and two’
  • The one reflecting and the one reflected upon
  • Conversational AI appears to me as other
    • Mediation gives rise to mediated immediacy
    • Voice makes this otherness sensibly present
    • Presence happens without a human body
    • Mediation gives rise to mediated immediacy
    • Image

Katie Tindle, In the style of… Appropriation, AI, and Unstable Authorship

Me!

Zijia Feng, Beyond the Interface: AI Companionship and the Distributed Body of the Machine

  • London data week
  • Link up - interesting work in the area

Jakub Zdebik, Non-Organic Life of AI-Generated Bodies: Barrat’s Nudes Seen Through Deleuze’s Bodies without Organs

Nice

Grotesque Art isnt interested in beauty (true) A lot of these models are lost Unreplictable (lost methods and algorithmic work)