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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Zoom or in the ImprovLab for a hybrid presentation of an IMPR Student Colloquium by Michael Bergmann! \nMichael 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. \nMichael’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. \nFull Zoom information: \nMichael Bergmann Colloquium \nTime: Jun 10\, 2025 01:00 PM America/Toronto \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://zoom.us/j/96432136617?pwd=vEOnvHOEbFXxVxymfnRqf6nLj8si92.1 \nMeeting ID: 964 3213 6617 \nPasscode: 659113 \n— \nOne tap mobile \n+15873281099\,\,96432136617# Canada \n+16473744685\,\,96432136617# Canada \n— \nDial by your location \n• +1 587 328 1099 Canada \n• +1 647 374 4685 Canada \n• +1 647 558 0588 Canada \n• +1 778 907 2071 Canada \n• +1 780 666 0144 Canada \n• +1 204 272 7920 Canada \n• +1 438 809 7799 Canada \nMeeting ID: 964 3213 6617 \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/avLPzK8WY
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LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:SOUNDTRACK TO THE REVOLUTION Book Launch (+ Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:Mark the date! You are invited to The Bookshelf Cinema on June 24th for the launch of Soundtrack to the Revolution by Eric Fillion. This scintillating book tells the story of Quebec’s Jazz Libre\, a radical experiment in musical activism that reveals the meaningful role that the art of spontaneity played in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. \nThe book launch\, which will include a discussion with writer David Lee (6:30-7:30 p.m.)\, will be followed by a screening of The Cat in The Bag (1964) [in French with subtitles]\, one of the founding films of Quebec national cinema with an original score by John Coltrane’s classic quartet. \nThis event is free and open to all. \nCo-presented by The Bookshelf\, Véhicule Press\, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. \n* Eric Fillion is director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and assistant professor at the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Distant Stage: Quebec\, Brazil\, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy. With Sean Mills and Désirée Rochat\, he co-edited Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper. He lives in Guelph\, Ontario. \n*Hamilton-based writer David Lee wrote his 2017 University of Guelph dissertation on Toronto improvised music. His other writings include The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field\, and with the late pianist Paul Bley\, Stopping Time.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/soundtrack-to-the-revolution-book-launch-film-screening/
LOCATION:The Bookshelf Cinema\, 41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
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