Wednesday 11 December 2024, Blurring the Boundaries: Reflecting on Artistic-Led Research on Designing Human-Technology Entanglements conference.
In this symposium, we explore how embodied, participatory and artistic design approaches can be used for developing such novel, often AI-enabled human-technology entanglements.
At the end of the symposium day, we engage with and present the results of the DiscReTe project (Disconnections and Relationships mediated through Intimate Technologies), in which we developed a conceptual wearable prototype for AI-enabled intimate technologies through dance.
We present the DiscReTe wearable in a dance performance that is an artistic interpretation of how intimate computing could support human connection through human-technology partnership.
Digital information technologies become more and more intimately interwoven with our daily lives. Through developments in sensor technology and material sciences, technologies such as wearables, high-tech garments, smart objects, and assistive technologies become embedded in our environments and on our bodies. This merging of cyber and physical worlds in combination with advances in Artificial Intelligence gives rise to new questions about what it means to be human in a society where people and digital technologies become intimately connected.