Abstract
This paper examines two dance works Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment (2019) and Centaur (2020), choreographed by Wayne McGregor and Pontus Lidberg respectively, where Atificial Intelligence (AI) takes part in producing creative movements. It argues that the Google AI of Living Archive analyses McGregor’s dance archive data and generates choreography by recombining movement sequences in McGregor’s choreographic style. By contrast, throughout a performance of Centaur, an AI system called David spontaneously modifies its own choreographic rules and offers new movement structures and elements to dancers in real time. Although how the AI systems operate in the two works are different, the choreographers and their collaborators equally answer AI’s ability to produce creativity in the affirmative. This paper questions whether the human’s cognitive ability is a prerequisite for making an artwork and suggests that creativity in art has to be reconceptualized while going beyond an anthropocentric understanding of what can be an artwork.
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