Aoyama Shin | Neji Pijin + YCAM "Seisei no Sensei" (Part 1)
The performance art "Seisei no Sensei" by Neji Pijin and YCAM explores the bidirectional relationship between generative AI and human input.Summary
This article reviews the first part of the performance art "Seisei no Sensei" by dancer/choreographer Neji Pijin and others, staged at the Yamaguchi Center for Media Arts (YCAM). The setting mimics a classroom where audience members are given small robots (bots), and a cylindrical AI device named "Sensei" sits at the teacher's desk. The performance is divided into two parts: the first involving "Sensei" and the audience, and the second featuring the bots. Crucially, the actions in the second half are generated in real-time by generative AI based on the audience's utterances collected during the first half. This structure creates a nested relationship where the AI generates a subsequent "performance" from human data, probing the recursive relationship between humans and AI. The review highlights the significance of "Sensei" asking questions about embodiment, such as "What does the sea taste like?", bringing the classic symbol grounding problem of generative AI into the realm of performance art.
(Source：artscape)