Heat Work is a performance project that investigates the energy and heat of movement data generated by tribal dances from an extraction zone. The methodology includes motion capture, data classification, and a supervised ML model, with the overall discussion of implementing a sustainable approach to choreography with AI.

The project was commissioned by Just-AI project of the London School of Economics, AHRC-UK and Ada Lovelace Foundation.

Project Team

Samir Bhowmik, PI

Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Performance Research

Minh Anh Nguyễn, Data Science Research

Lydia Touliatou, Choreography Research

Alison Powell, Advisor

Forthcoming Publication: Heat Work: Choreography as an Ecological Enquiry of Machine Learning and Extractivism