Inside the Pillow Lab: The Choreodaemonic Collective (With Captions & Audio Description)

Founded by Laurel Lawson and Sydney Skybetter, the Choreodaemonic Collective is a collaborative ensemble of artist-technologists that partner choreography with technology to investigate the boundaries of the individual, collective, and environment. In their residency, the Collective developed "The Choreodaemonic Platform," an installation and performance in which artists, audiences, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) contend with the sometimes symbiotic, sometimes adversarial relationship between nature, art, and emerging technologies. The artists worked with projections and a floating robot dancer-body to refine the robot’s kinaesthetic responses to people’s movements and to explore opportunities for audience interaction to further develop a dance party concept. Major support for The Choreodaemonic Collective is provided by the Ford Foundation. Video by Nel Shelby Productions.