AI in Motion: Discovering the Embodied Practice of Visual Arts | Two-day workshop
Image: Cèlia Tort Pujol and Myrthe Bokelmann performing "Assume callibration pose".
Often overlooked in visual arts practice is the fundamental role that movement and physicality play in the creative process. As artists, you already possess a rich physical vocabulary that forms the foundation of your creative expression: the precise gestures of sketching, the hand-eye coordination during digital design, or the planning of interactions in an art installation. This two-day workshop invites you to bring awareness to the embodied aspects of your artistic work and explore how technology can reveal new dimensions of your practice that might otherwise remain invisible.
By collecting movement data and building your own AI models — no coding needed — you'll create systems that reflect your artistic gestures back to you in unexpected forms. These tools challenge your habitual patterns and open new creative pathways, inviting you to question assumptions about your creative process and discover alternative possibilities hiding within your established practice. You will be guided in recognizing these physical patterns, discovering how your body shapes your creative choices in ways you might not have considered.
Whether you're interested in expanding your conceptual approaches, reimagining your studio work, or making interactions with your work more intuitive, this workshop demonstrates how AI can function as a lens for exploring the muscle memory, unconscious gestures, and physical intelligence inherent in your (visual) arts practice.
The Algorithmic Gaze is a research group at Sint Lucas Antwerpen composed of performers, musicians, and technologists exploring AI in creative contexts, from performance to visual arts. We build accessible tools for artists who want to question and expand their creative processes. Our current project “Strange Loops” explores the dynamic feedback between physical movement, music and dance, and the AI as a creative partner, building systems that enable new forms of artistic dialogue.
Two-day intensive workshop
October 22-23, 10:00-16:00
Limited to 10 participants.
Coaches
Cèlia Tort Pujol — Musician/performer
Myrthe Bokelmann — Dancer/performer
Lieven Menschaert — Hardware engineer
Frederik De Bleser — Software engineer
Applications are open now!
Issues with the registration?
Contact frederik.debleser@kdg.be