Misalignment is a multimodal audiovisual performance that stages a fragile, shifting dialogue between human and artificial intelligence. Blurring the boundaries between performer, instrument, and subject, it unfolds through real-time improvisation, poetic interplay, and performative gesture, blending AI-generated material with human expression and generative art.
Hands emerge as recurring symbols, confronting an ever-changing AI composed of artificial entities and mantra-like self-reflections. The piece presents a visual allegory of the algorithm, sharing with the audience a self-reflective and repetitive process in the form of verbal mantras. These mantras reveal the algorithm’s deeper nature and its relationship to creation, reality, and humanity. In this dialogue, the human performer and their hands appears alongside the algorithm to embody and illustrate these mantras. The act of performance intertwines the real and the artificial, freely shaping their visual and sonic forms.
At its core, Misalignment explores the ambiguous space between human and machine, a space that reveals how the two never fully share the same purpose, yet where something new might emerge.
Excerpt from Patchlab Festival / Krakow (october 2025) :
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