New York, USA Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 4:00 pm EST
Chicago, USA Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 3:00 pm CST
Los Angeles, USA Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 1:00 pm PST
Greenwich Mean Time, GMT Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 9:00 pm GMT
Machine learning and computational technologies are mapping new terrains of human–machine collaboration, where embodiment becomes both medium and method for rethinking creativity, interaction, and regeneration. These convergences challenge us to reconsider the boundaries of the human body, machine agency, and both individual and collective imagination.
This session invites artists and researchers to share projects and perspectives on embodied human–machine practices. We welcome short presentations of completed works, works-in-progress, or research explorations, especially those engaging with the aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions of embodied convergences. Areas of focus include (but are not limited to):
- Wearables systems and interfaces
- Robotic art and automated choreographies
- Generative and data-driven practices
- Embodied interaction and somatic approaches
- XR and immersive performances
- Audiovisual interaction in dance, theater, and live arts
- Sound and music computing
- HCI and real-time interactive systems
Mona Kasra is a media artist, interdisciplinary researcher, and Associate Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia. Her work examines the political and theoretical implications of visual media technologies within our culture and cross culturally. She frequently collaborates with musicians, choreographers, and theater-makers to explore new media and performance, enhancing narrative and audience immersion. Kasra’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries and film festivals worldwide, and she has contributed as a curator, programmer, and reviewer for major exhibitions, film festivals, and conferences. She was an elected member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (2019–2025), SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference Chair, and SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery Chair. She is currently a board member of the New Media Caucus.
Bonnie Mitchell is a new media artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Digital Arts, in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of the SIGGRAPH archives and coordination of the SPARKS lecture series. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction and audio. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive environments using interaction via electronics and special FX to reveal change over time. Her work has been exhibited internationally at numerous venues.