Human-Robot DadAIsm
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Human-Robot DadAIsm explores and extends the materials and posthuman dramaturgical concepts originating from our Human-Robot Experience (HRX) project, seeking to trouble prevailing sociotechnical imaginaries of our relationships with robots. In this posthuman performance practice, costumes embody the material and spatial affordances of robots-in-the-making to facilitate transcorporeal, more-than-human perspective-taking. Using generative AI tools, Human-Robot DadAIsm constructs extended, alternative scenarios based on a snapshot from our experimental studio practice. Triptych panel 1 explores the entanglements of dance performers and abstract, machinelike artifacts, while panel 2 reflects on robot "in the wild" studies of human-robot relationships in real-world scenarios. Occasionally, the AI proposes constellations transcending human imagination—triptych panel 3 presents a surreal, seemingly nonsensical human-robot configuration, creating a different kind of robot "in the wild". Each panel, a collaboration with a generative AI model, serves a core objective of our research project: the first depicts the horizontal playground of the studio environment. The second panel reframes the entanglement produced in this context, expanding sociotechnical imaginaries while highlighting the mismatch of studio-born human-robot relationships relocated in the real world. The third panel propels our imagination into a fantastic more-than-human realm—a satirical materialization of the ethico-onto-epistemological mess shaping many future fantasies. Ironically, the latter may offer more diverse and sustainable more-than-human-robot constellations than we currently imagine.
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