{"607254":{"#nid":"607254","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LuminAI Shows Off its Moves at San Francisco Art+Tech Festival","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Michael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Adaptive Digital Media Lab, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/adamlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EADAM Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, recently took its LuminAI interactive dance art installation to the Art+Tech Festival in San Francisco, where it was well received.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The reaction was very positive in general,\u0026rdquo; said lab director Brian Margerko, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We saw a steady stream of attendees at both evening events coming up and dancing with LuminAI to teach it new dance moves.\u0026nbsp; People lit up when they saw they AI dancer repeat their moves or even perform complimentary moves to what they were doing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe version on display in San Francisco was a travel model that allows for easy setup, not the full geodesic dome version some in the Georgia Institute of Technology community might recognize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELuminAI uses Microsoft Kinect videogame devices to capture the movements of a human dance partner, which are projected as a silhouette onto a screen. The computer then uses artificial intelligence based on a theory of dance and movement called Viewpoints to determine how to match the human partner\u0026rsquo;s moves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe installation has changed some since its 2016 debut, said Magerko, whose lab is part of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E. They include significant updates to the code behind the artificial intelligence that LuminAI uses to generate its moves, Magerko said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The AI correctly learns movements from interactors now, something it had trouble with in the past,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The visuals are also different.\u0026nbsp; We have gone from the \u0026lsquo;firefly\u0026rsquo; model to a 3D \u0026lsquo;\u003Cem\u003ETron\u003C\/em\u003E-esque model\u0026rsquo; to back to our roots, which is an experience very much like shadow theater.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe installation also has appeared as part of an artist residency at the Children\u0026#39;s Museum of Pittsburgh and at the ACCelerate Festival at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Adaptive Digital Media Lab, or ADAM Lab, 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