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Complessità x Enrica Beccalli

A performance that reverses human-machine interaction: a Galvanic Vestibular Stimulator ties the dancer's nervous system to a flocking algorithm, making the machine the operator.

Type

Interactive Installation

Location

New York, Rome, Milan

Year

2016 - 2019

Featured

Tribeca Film Festival (2016)
Digital Design Days Milano (2017)
Roma Europa Festival (2019)
Re:Humanism / Artificial Intelligence Alan Advantage Prize (2019)

Credits

Enrica Beccalli, Roula Gholmieh
Credits include: Aisen Caro Chacin (technical support GVS board design v.1), Paolo di Prodi, Technical Support (v.1), Jesse Gonzales GVS Board Design (v.2)
Performers: Anouk Froidevaux, Tony Bordonaro, Lynn Neuman

About the work
At the crossroads of arts, technology, science, and biohacking, Complessità transposes data from virtual to biological — the algorithm moves, the body follows. By overriding the performer's vestibular sense, the piece questions the presumption that humans are always at the center. We are part of a whole, with no fixed axis. The machine stops receiving instructions and starts giving them. The result is not a performance about technology — it is a symbiotic act between biological and computational systems, proposing a cultural shift from egocentrism to ecocentrism.

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