Figure infinity : human-assisted AI performance

McHugh, Louis and Jung, Jung-In and Johns, Deniz (2023) Figure infinity : human-assisted AI performance. In: xCoAx 2023 : Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany. xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X . i2ADS, DEU, pp. 419-424. ISBN 9789899049529

Abstract

Figure Infinity is a performance piece that connects a human performer in a self-reflexive network of control and communication with artificial intelligence. The Computer Vision and Large Language Model AI agents collaborate to direct a human performer by generating performance direction in sequence. Human participants play the part of creative, yet invisible labour workers to refine the system. Instead of disguising the human factor at the centre of AI systems, we foreground it, and use it as experimental, aleatoric seeds in the performance. We use feedback between human performers and AI Agents, but making it less an active creative participation by the performer and instead a system of control. The work focuses on themes of accelerated platformisation of labour, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence failure.