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Improvnetics: Post-anthropocentric performance and improvisational modes for human-AI play, or: What we talk about when we talk about Intersentient empathy. | IMPR Colloquium by Michael Bergmann
Please join us on Zoom or in the ImprovLab for a hybrid presentation of an IMPR Student Colloquium by Michael Bergmann!
Michael Bergmann is a Canadian artist and scholar. He is a tenured Associate Professor in Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research-creation work explores the integration of AI and robotics into performance and storytelling, fostering post-humanist and post-anthropocentric thinking through improvisational collaboration with synthetic intelligences. He holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama, where he was supervised by Wendall Harrington.
Michael’s research proposal is called “Improvnetics: Post-anthropocentric performance and improvisational modes for human-AI play, or: What we talk about when we talk about Intersentient empathy.” It is centred around key questions: How can improvisational practices foster empathy in human-robot and human-AI interactions? What role does performance play in shaping these interactions? And how can we better understand non-human sentience? The primary objectives are to develop a framework for human-robot / human-AI improvised performance that treats each as equals; examine representation of robots beyond language performance; explore potential live interactive performances as mediums for human-robot interaction.
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Michael Bergmann Colloquium
Time: Jun 10, 2025 01:00 PM America/Toronto
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