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SUMMARY:Agency and Performance
DESCRIPTION:Agency and Performance - Q&A\n\nAfter all of the presentations
 , attendees are invited to participate in a Q&A.\n\n---------------------\
 nPoeSpin: A Human-AI Dance to Poetry System for Movement-Based Verse Gener
 ation\n\nPoeSpin is a human-AI cocreating system. By transforming pole dan
 ce movements into poetry through AI, we challenge both traditional prejudi
 ces against this art form and conventional approaches to human-AI creativi
 ty. This work demonstrates how computational systems can preserve the deep
 ly human aspe...\n\n\nYihua Li (Interactive Telecommunications Program, Ne
 w York University); Hongyue Chen (English Literature and Literary Theory, 
 University of Freiburg); Yiqing Li (Interactive Telecommunications Program
 , New York University); and Yetong Xin (Graduate School of Design, Harvard
  University)\n---------------------\nMulti Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologi
 es in Robotic Art Installations\n\n“Symbiosis of Agents” merges AI-driven 
 multi-agent robotics with immersive environments, exploring the delicate b
 alance of machine agency and artist authorship through emergent behaviors 
 in self-organized AI ecologies. Its layered approach—micro-level strategie
 , meso-level drives, ...\n\n\nBaoyang Chen (Hong Kong University of Scienc
 e and Technology, Central Academy of Fine Arts) and Xian Xu and Huamin Qu 
 (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\n---------------------\nR
 eimagining Beckett’s Not I in Virtual Reality: The MetaHuman as a Digital 
 Double of the Actor\n\nThis practice-based project reimagines Beckett’s No
 t I in virtual reality, marrying minimalist theatre with immersive technol
 ogy. A lone, disembodied Metahuman mouth exploits VR’s intense presence wh
 ile subverting customary embodiment and audience agency. Integrating perfo
 rming avatars, ...\n\n\nNéill O'Dwyer, Enda Bates, and Nicholas Johnson (T
 rinity College Dublin)\n---------------------\nDiscipline Together with th
 e Self in Kendo: Exploring "Qi" through Mixed Reality and Autoethnography\
 n\nThis work explores “qi” in kendo through mixed reality and autoethnogra
 phy, blending tradition and technology. By animating digital humans with “
 qi”, it frames martial arts as art. The project invites reflection on self
 hood and offers fresh insights at the intersection of cul...\n\n\nKaren Fu
 ruta, Jingjing Li, Tatsuki Fushimi, and Yoichi Ochiai (University of Tsuku
 ba)\n---------------------\nin(A)n(I)mate - AI-Mediated Conversations with
  Inanimate Objects\n\n2025, rumored to be the "year of AI agents," the art
 work in(A)n(I)mate envisions a future where AI systems act behind the scen
 es of objects, providing them agency and performativity, animating them, a
 nd bringing them closer to human awareness. By inviting conversations with
  everyday objects, in(A)n(...\n\n\nAvital Meshi (University of California 
 Davis) and Adam Wright (UC Davis)\n\nInterest Area: Arts & Design, Gaming 
 & Interactive, New Technologies, Production & Animation, Research & Educat
 ion\n\nRecording: Livestreamed, Not Livestreamed, Recorded, Not Recorded\n
 \nKeyword: Animation, Art, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Audio
 , Augmented Reality, Capture/Scanning, Computer Vision, Digital Twins, Dis
 play, Dynamics, Education, Ethics and Society, Games, Generative AI, Perfo
 rmance, Physical AI, Real-Time, Robotics, Simulation, Spatial Computing, V
 irtual Reality\n\nRegistration Category: Full Conference, Virtual Access, 
 Experience, Monday\n\nSession Chair: Mona Kasra (University of Virginia)
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