Embodiment of Motion: Loïe Fuller & Aesthetics of Performance in Emerging Tech
This talk introduces Loïe Fuller as a pioneering artist and innovator who helped shape the foundations of modern stagecraft. It explores her as a technological futurist and sensory visionary whose performances blended embodiment, illusion, and media innovation. How can we leverage cultural heritage to reanimate historic figures through AI and emerging technologies, and channel Fuller's performance to explore the poetics of embodiment and abstraction?
Drawing from my own practice, including fashion design, motion capture, character animation for the VR project Master Dancer, and AI-based creative experiments, this talk also highlights how contemporary artists continue to reference and reimagine Fuller's legacy, using her influence as a lens to explore new forms of expression. We keep her legacy alive from the flowing cloth of the Serpentine Dance to speculative virtual bodies in emerging technologies.
