MORE THAN HUMAN
A soft-cinema Lounge experience
Dive into this evolving exploration of dance, generative visuals, and more-than-human intelligence, inspired by James Bridle’s Ways of Being.
A unique dance and technology collaboration with The Light Surgeons and Chronic Insanity Theatre. Commissioned and presented by Watermans as a pilot project in the framework of ArtCast4D - Horizon Europe Research and innovation programme.
Using open-source AAAseed software and Xbox Kinect, dancers’ movements generate real-time visuals, exploring a dialogue between body, light, and machine intelligence. Experience choreography projected on a suspended screen, viewed lying down, creating an immersive chill-out cinema.
Drift into a new dimension
Upon arrival, audience members are free to enter and explore the space at their own pace. The film runs on a continuous 30-minute loop, displayed across multiple screens, including one positioned overhead.
Soft red cushions are arranged in the centre of the space, inviting audiences to lie down and gaze upward. This position creates an immersive viewing experience, allowing them to become fully absorbed in the film.
There is no time restriction, encouraging audiences to engage with the work as they choose. Chairs are placed around the perimeter, offering alternative ways to experience the installation. Some visitors begin by sitting and observing others or watching one of the surrounding screens, while others immediately lie down to focus on the overhead projection before moving around the space.
Engagement times vary—some stay for 30 minutes, while others remain immersed for over an hour.
The work is inspired by James Bridle’s Ways of Being which is a powerful rethinking of intelligence, not as something exclusive to humans or machines but as something distributed across all living systems, plants, animals, fungi, ecosystems and algorithms. Bridal invites us to see intelligence as relational, emergent and ecological. We wanted to explore these ideas through dance music and moving image
A dialogue unfolds between dancer, light, and machine.
