I talk with Eetu Vekki and Corinne Mustonen about the interdisciplinary exhibition and performance collaboration Ex Machina in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki's gallery Kuva/Tila. We sit in the middle of Eetu's sculptural light installation of AI-produced images engraved into paper, and we are immersed in a soundscape by Murrettumeri. In a series of dance performances, Corinne interpreted Eetu's work with her body and activated the installation, based on a translation process where the graphical images were interpreted as a dance score, choreographed by Eetu and performed by Corinne. We talk about collaborative strategies and collective production methods, Eetu explains how he has experimented with Midjourney AI to produce a new form of musical notes, and Corinne tells about how the outside eye of a choreographer can give her the freedom of intuitive expression when dancing, and how she considers her body to be an archive of movement. We also touch on the question of authorship when people and AI co-create, and reflect on the similarities and differences between machines working with prompts and the human body interpreting other media into dance. Eetu and Corinne talk about how the group has been translating between different creatives languages and materials, transforming text to images into music and dance, reading every variation as music- or dance scores.
This episode contains sound clips recorded by me, from the Ex Machina performance by Eetu Vekki & co. Original sound design by Murrettumeri, costume design by Raisa Raudas, and violin by Meriheini Luoto.
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