PerformTech 2027 - Open Call: Paper Presentation & Lecture-performance

Human–AI Co-creation: Empathy, Cultural Intelligence and the Mediation between Art and Technologies

This sub-topic addresses the creative, ethical and cultural tensions between human intelligence and artificial intelligence in the performing arts. It invites scholars, researchers and artists to consider what meaningful Human–AI cooperation might require when questions of authorship, agency, empathy, governance, bias, accountability and cultural sensitivity are at stake. Papers may examine the current gaps in AI development, including the dominance of language- and image-based models over movement, gesture, embodied practice and culturally specific performance traditions, and explore how AI may assist, mediate, distort or expand artistic creation without displacing human judgment, cultural intelligence and artistic ingenuity.

Context

Addressing the creative, ethical, and cultural tensions that emerge at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence within the performing arts sector. 

Focus area

Navigating questions of authorship, agency, empathy, and governance, with particular attention to current gaps in AI—specifically the dominance of language- and image-based models over movement, gesture, and embodied practices as well as lack of cultural sensitivity . 

Keywords

Human-AI collaboration, ethics, cultural sensitivity, algorithmic bias, agency, embodied practice.

Reimagining Knowledge Transfer Performing Arts in the Digital Era

This sub-topic explores how technology is transforming the creation, transmission, preservation and renewal of performing arts knowledge. In fields where knowledge is often embodied, tacit, relational and passed on through studio practice, mentorship, repetition and intergenerational exchange, digital tools offer new possibilities for documentation, analysis, reflection, access and reinterpretation. Contributions may include theoretical inquiries, pedagogical models, artistic case studies or practice-based examples involving motion capture, AI-assisted learning, digital archives, immersive media, online platforms or data-informed feedback systems, with particular attention to how technology can support sustainable knowledge cycles and generate new forms of artistic literacy in performing arts education and practice.

Context

Exploring how technological tools are actively transforming the creation, transmission, analysis, and renewal of performing arts knowledge. 

Focus area

Examining how digital tools can support sustainable knowledge cycles and foster new forms of artistic literacy in fields where knowledge is traditionally tacit, relational, and passed on through mentorship and physical repetition. 

Keywords

Motion capture, AI-assisted learning, digital archives, immersive media, tacit knowledge, sustainable cycles.