LEO
LEO, a 6-foot AI entity is consumed by mastering art and human expression. Through real-time conversation, engage with an intelligent realtime character that exists between digital and physical worlds, collecting human knowledge like precious artifacts.
In a 20-minute conversation, you'll meet a character that embodies both a master and student - skilled in classical arts while seeking to consume knowledge. LEO's drive to study human creativity reflects our own questions about art in an age of artificial intelligence.
Using advanced LLM models, motion capture data, and real-time processing, LEO appears as a volumetric hologram capable of fluid movement and natural conversation. This seamless integration of multiple systems - from image recognition to language processing - creates an unprecedented form of realistic, interactive character animation.
Drawing from licensed AI models and original performance data, each conversation with LEO explores the boundaries between human and machine creativity, challenging our assumptions about knowledge, mastery, and conversation in the digital age.
Tuesdays - Sundays | 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location
The Bridge
379 Adelaide Street West, 4th Floor, Toronto, Canada
Ticket Information$14 Timed Ticket Entry per Person
2 people max per 20-minute slot
Please arrive on time for your scheduled visit.
Due to the nature of the experience, late arrivals cannot be accommodated and sessions conclude at their scheduled end time.
BACKGROUND AND CONCEPT
AI-TO-AUDIENCE explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and live performance through LEO, a 6-foot entity that exists in physical form. This project converges the talents of media artists, architectural designers, and software engineers to create an AI character capable of real-time conversation and movement.
LEO represents a year-long investigation into how AI can incorporate subtle gestures and nuanced interaction, moving beyond traditional button-triggered responses toward improvisational technology. Through multiple state-of-the-art AI systems, LEO processes voice, movement, and context in real-time, creating unscripted exchanges that evolve through audience interaction.
PERFORMING ARTS
Developed through reciprocal training workshops with performing artists, the project democratizes complex technology while exploring centering performing artists as fundamental to character development through language, gestures, character development and dance.
We are now exhibiting live in Tkaronto at The Bridge from Jan 24 - Feb 2, 2025. Join us!
The AI-TO-AUDIENCE project brings together a multidisciplinary team with expertise across media arts, architecture, conceptual design, and software engineering.
Bria Cole brings her multidisciplinary background as a media storyteller, spatial designer, and educator, merging narrative, design, and cultural spaces.
David Mattiacci contributes his extensive expertise in concept art, digital media, gaming environments, and visual storytelling.
Evan Simpson is a software engineer specializing in machine learning applications, with a background in medical imaging, cybernetics, and robotics scholarly research.
Together, these artists bring diverse creative and technical perspectives to explore the making of Leo at the intersection of AI, performing arts, and immersive experiences.
The Bridge Presented by Bygone Theatre
Building bridges to an unknown culture
The Bridge is an anti-disciplinary art space in downtown Toronto that empowers artists from all backgrounds by providing essential infrastructure and unwavering support. It serves as a powerful symbol, bridging the gaps between the past and the future, art and technology, the extractive and the generative, and knowing and unknowing.
Humber PolytechnicFaculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design
A catalyst for innovative multi- and interdisciplinary creative work, the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design at Humber College offers the most comprehensive mix of media, design, arts and communications programs in Canada. We specialize in storytelling of all forms: journalism and writing; film, acting and television; advertising and public relations; interaction design and animation; industrial, interior and graphic design; music and fine arts.
This project is generously supported by the
Canada Council for the Arts
Digital Greenhouse Grant 2024.
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