Living Archive

Living Archive, 2019

Video installation

LED screen

The Music Centre, Los Angeles

The Living Archive is an experiment between Studio Wayne McGregor and Google Arts and Culture - a tool for choreography powered by machine learning which generates original movement inspired by Wayne’s 25-year archive. Alongside the Living Archive project Williams created a suspended video installation for a live performance titled Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment. Williams collaborated with Google Arts and Culture to create abstract visualizations of AI generated choreography which explores ideas of dance as code and vice versa. Without privileging his own human lens Williams attempted not to make a distinction between what would traditionally be considered ‘ugly’ and ‘beautiful’.  Through this, it raises questions about the new aesthetics that AI presents to us, that don’t necessarily conform to our values,  guiding us to challenge the way we look at the world.