Nina Maria Stemberger
Nina Maria Stemberger is a director, performer, theatre educator and curator. She developed her passion for performances in urban spaces in 2003 and was present in the international street theatre scene until 2010. In 2008, she founded the international youth encounter “artcamp” and was the artistic director of the theatre programme until 2018. Her work focuses on site-specific stagings, participatory audiences, and the crossover between technology and performers. It is important to her to make these accessible to all generations, cultures and genders and to make them experienceable through strong visual representations. Her productions open up new perspectives, make the theoretical tangible, arouse emotions and create solidarity. In her work, she repeatedly asks herself how art can be an integrative component in the development of future perspectives and how it can be co-designed. She curates artistic interaction works at the Garbicz Festival and the Chaos Communication Congress.
Birk Schmithuesen
Birk Schmithüsen is a media artist. In his artistic research he explores complex phenomena auch as Machine Learning (AI) and BigData as artistic material. The research results are staged in performances or presented in immersive media installations. His approach is to make complex systems experienceable through audiovisual interpretation, thus promoting discourse. Between explanatory approaches through data sonification and visualization, abstract, aesthetic reuse of emerging technologies and speculative concepts, he creates systems with live-like behaviour and opens up new perspectives on current topics. Birk Schmithüsen holds a diploma in fine art and was an EMAP 2019 scholarship holder. His work is shown internationally at key media art festivals in France, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Germany, Serbia and Brazil, including re:publica, Chaos Communication Congress, Ars Electronica Festival and ZKM.
Elisabeth Scholz
Support with a “Unity” workshop
Elisabeth Scholz completed her bachelor's degree in computer science and media at Bauhaus University Weimar. During her studies she focused on interface design, robotics, AR & VR, 3D animation and game design. Afterwards, she worked at schnellebuntebilder for a year, working on projects in the field of interaction design.
She gave a three-day workshop in Unity and Blender at Theater Dortmund. There she worked together with ArtesMobiles on a workflow on how to string together animation clips recorded with a motion tracking system to create choreography in three-dimensional space. They also explored how to illuminate the scene using volumetric light.
https://www.elisabethscholz.de/
Pierre Rodriguez
Development of the gyroscope sensor setup
Hello, I am Pierre Rodriguez, the intern of Birk and Nina.
I heard about their work on internet and as I was looking for an internship for some months around the Art & AI field, I just contacted them and they took me with them.
So I am here to help with the electronic part of the project, helping to make the suits, and assist for other project of them. I would say it's nice to work and talk with them about the project because since it's a research project, there is place for discussion and new ideas.
Especially on this question of AI making music, there are a lot of theoretical questions about how it should sounds and how to train it, that make it even more interesting when it comes to hear and criticize the outcome we obtain.
Daniel Dalfovo
Integration of the Machine Learning and Tracking Logic in TouchDesigner
Daniel Dalfovo is a Media Artist based in Berlin. After his studies at the University of the Arts his work focused around the intersection of art, technology and science. From this interdisciplinary genre grew a body of work and collaborations with internationally renowned artist, research institutions and design studios. Additionally Daniel Dalfovo taught at multiple universities, ranging from Moscow and Shanghai to Berlin.
https://danieldalfovo.de/
Christian Losert
Coding the Machine Learning and Max/MSP patches
Christian Losert is an artist, creative technologist and lecturer in the field of media arts. He studied Digital Media at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts with a Master's degree in Sound Studies. In addition to teaching activities in the field of sound and media art, Christian Losert collaborated as a sound artist and creative coder with renowned artists, creative studios and scientific institutions on international award-winning works.
https://www.christianlosert.com/
Ben Petersen
Dancing and Machine Training
BEN PETERSEN works as an illustrator, media artist and performer. His works oscillate between drawing, animation, installation, video, dance and performance art. In his works he unites the disciplines, searching for new forms and spaces. The relationship between man and nature often plays a role. His video work "Alleinkommunikation" was shown in Germany, Spain and Portugal. As a performer he has worked in projects with Elisabeth Schilling, Cie.Willi Dorner, Heike Bröckerhoff and Commedia Futura, among others.
www.benjaminpetersen.net
www.instagram.com/be_pete
Hayato Yamaguchi
Dancing and Machine Training
Hayato Yamaguchi is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and street artist, who grew up in Tokyo. His style is based on contemporary, jazz, ballet, street dance and acrobatics. After he moved to Germany in 2012, he was engaged with Theater Bonn (Kati Farkas, Caroline Finn), Theater Dortmund (Michael Schmieder, Ricarda Regina Ludigkeit), Dance Compagnie Fredeweß (Hans Fredeweß), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Karl Alfred Schreiner, Anna Holter), TANZ theater INTERNATIONAL 2015, Dance Theatre Luxembourg (Jean-Guillaume Weis), Theatre Rites in London (Director / Sue Buckmaster, Choreographer / Jamaal Burkmar), Tanzmoto dance company in Essen (Guest Choreographer / Royston Maldoom) etc. He has been a potential artist (dancer) of Cirque du Soleil since March 2015.
https://hayatoyamaguchi.com/