Generative Choreography Performance-Lecture by Operator

In this performance-lecture, artist duo Operator presents their Generative Choreography Method that makes performance collectable as an art object. As they diagram their process on a blackboard, three performers bring the method to life, demonstrating how algorithmic choreography becomes both a container and prompt for visceral human expression. Operator live generates choreographic sequences while illustrating the technical backbone of their seminal work Human Unreadable. Audiences venture into the conversion between physical expression and digital ownership, hinting towards a transformed future of performance.

Ania Catherine (b. 1990, US) and Dejha Ti (b. 1985, US) are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy began with their performance installation On View (2019), commissioned by SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology. For their most recent work Human Unreadable, they created an on-chain generative choreography method.