Bad, Bad AI

Bad, Bad AI is a multidisciplinary initiative exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping authorship, embodiment, and expression across music, dance, theater, visual art, and emerging media.

Led by FuturePerfect Studio and the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, the project invites artists from all disciplines and technologists to rethink how we perform intelligence—and how intelligence performs us.

The initiative supports research-based experimentation, public discourse, and new production through residencies, talks, and convenings. Designed to unfold in phases, Bad, Bad AI offers flexible pathways for institutional partners to participate and co-shape the program’s direction.

The title Bad, Bad AI evokes a playful provocation: participants are invited to engage with AI’s failures, biases, and unexpected behaviors (the so-called “bad” sides of AI) as fertile ground for creative experimentation, rather than as problems to be eliminated. In essence, this program is an incubator for imagining choreologic futures – futures in which bodily intelligence and choreographic thinking play a central role in shaping technological innovation.

Program Modules

Performing the Machine: Intelligence, Embodiment, and the Choreography of Systems A public series of talks and live demonstrations showcasing how artists use machine learning to train systems that respond to movement, generate choreographies, or act as creative agents.

Residency Program – Embodied Systems Lab An incubator for artist-technologist collaborations to develop new performative and interactive vocabularies of embodiment and intelligence—across dance, robotics, sensing, media systems, and more.

Convening – Performing Intelligence: Bodies, Systems, and Stages in the Age of AI A curated gathering of performances, panels, and talks addressing the cultural implications of AI across artistic disciplines.

Production & Touring Select projects developed through the initiative may receive continued support through co-production and presentation partnerships.

Collaboration Model Each module can operate independently or in combination, offering institutions flexibility to engage at various scales—whether by hosting a talk, supporting a residency, or participating in co-commissioning new work. Artist participation will be shaped collaboratively with presenting partners.

Exemplary Artists The following artists offer concrete reference points for curatorial scope and artistic relevance. Final participants will be selected in partnership with host institutions: Jonah Bokaer, Holly Herndon, Wayne McGregor, Lev Manovich, Rashaad Newsome, Toni Dove, Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Ryat Yezbick, Paola Prestini.

Join Us We welcome partnerships with institutions committed to experimentation, critical inquiry, and future-oriented creative practice. Bad, Bad AI is not a finished package—it is a platform for shared authorship, artistic discovery, and cultural reflection.