Ripple - Opiyo Okach

An Encounter with Choreographer Opiyo Okach about his Art Residency at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in collaboration with the Immersive AI Systems group from The Warehouse – Champalimaud Foundation and the collective Lunar Ring.

Date & Time: March 29th at 6pm
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
Free entrance
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Opiyo Okach is a choreographer, performer and digital designer, as well as the artistic director of GaaraProjects. His work explores how we perceive and relate to one another through differences in body, culture, geography, and belief. Known for his expertise in improvisation and real-time composition, he has developed multidisciplinary processes at the intersection of performance, digital creation and technology.

During his residency, in collaboration with the Immersive AI Systems group at The Warehouse – Champalimaud Foundation and the collective Lunar Ring, he explores a new choreographic language that integrates dance and artificial intelligence. Through improvisation, motion tracking, and generative AI, they investigate the interactions between choreography and bodily behavior, where movement influences the creation of sonic, spatial, and visual environments, and vice versa.

In this pioneering work, human movement interacts with visuals and sound generated by AI algorithms, in a feedback loop between humans and machines, creating fantastic audiovisual landscapes. On the boundary between control and freedom, each side inspires the other, allowing for emerging and unpredictable phenomena.

Ripple features a performance-in-progress by Opiyo Okach, followed by a roundtable discussion with the artist, Niklas Fricke (member of the Immersive AI Systems group at Champalimaud Research) and John Krakauer (neurologist, long-time visiting neuroscientist at Champalimaud Research and leader of coming initiatives in clinical neuroscience and neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation). Together, they will explore the creative and investigative processes behind the residency and the potential applications of this knowledge to healthcare.

Join us for an engaging evening exploring the intersection of art, science, technology and healthcare through the work of the artist Opiyo Okach.

The event will be held in English. Entrance is free and registration is mandatory, through this link.