DEUS EX MACHINA DOCTRINA: THE AI DANCES

Christopher Knowlton

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – CINEFILE | Short
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Deus Ex Machina Doctrina: The AI Dances – United States

Deus Ex Machina Doctrina: The AI Dances is an experimental dance film that examines the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the extractive forces underpinning generative AI. Images of the artist in motion feed commercial AI video generators to hallucinate impossible choreographies. In doing so, movement prompting as a new mode of interaction with AI reveals emergent aesthetics and treatments of the body embedded in these systems. 

BIO

Christopher Knowlton, Ph.D., is a queer transdisciplinary movement artist and research scientist who uses emerging technologies to create augmented performance work. Based in Chicago, he has created many solo and collaborative dance works that have been featured locally and internationally, spanning dance, film, new media, puppetry and storytelling.