Vortrag im Rahmen des Veranstaltungsprogramms des Lehrstuhls Philosophie | Ästhetische Theorie.
"The global trend of creating artistic performances with humanoid robots—robots that move increasingly autonomously due to embodying generative AI—has accelerated alongside rapid advances in deep learning. This development has led to privately and publicly funded collaborations between robotics, AI, mechanical engineering, computer science, and dance. With techno-science taking the biomechanics and movement aesthetics of dancers as a model, my talk outlines the shift to what I call 'performance theories of bodily intelligence'. Given predictions that humanoid robots will significantly impact our social, political, and economic infrastructures, my talk speculates about the corporeally and politically sensibilising potential of transdisciplinary dance-based performance improvisations involving both human and machinic bodies.
Lisa Moravec researches interdisciplinary forms of contemporary performance in the visual and performing arts, with a focus on human, animal, and machine intersections and differences. She is currently a senior postdoc and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she leads the FWF project The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics. As curator, she initiated, among other projects, the performance exhibition Suddenly Begin in Splendour: Rose English, Performance, Presence, Spectacle, at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (July 2024 - May 2025), as well as the accompanying performance program. She has published essays and articles in academic journals and art magazines such as Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, and Spike. The co-edited book, Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy: Dissident Practices (Bloomsbury), is forthcoming and her monograph, Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance (Routledge), was published in 2024."
*The lecture will be held in English.