BIOADAPTED
Earlier this year, Transforma Theatre presented a workshop version of their new interactive theatrical experiment, Bioadapted, at the Culture Lab LIC for its 2023 Emergence Artist Residency Program. The piece is a theatrical reenactment documentary that sees actors portraying real people and scientists to interrogate a version of the future if AI propagates in unethical ways. CEO, Heidi Boisvert, served …
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Theater of the Mind
Theater of the Mind, a highly-anticipated immersive theater show, co-created by Talking Heads frontman and artist David Byrne and writer Mala Gaonkar opened at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on August 31st. This immersive theater experience is inspired by historical and current neuroscience research, taking participants on a journey into how we see and create our worlds. Participants …
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Preforming Arts Futures: An Online Gathering
Heidi Boisvert was invited to join as a speaker for the discussion series, Stanford’s Performing Arts Futures: An Online Gathering. During the 3 day event attendees were encouraged to participate in open forums around aesthetics, industry, and education within the scope of Digital Performing Arts after presentations from the featured speakers. Heidi presented a talk interrogating the question, “How should …
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BioArt Talks @CBIS
This March Heidi Boisvert was invited to speak for BioArt Talks @ CBIS, presented by her alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute‘s Center for Biotechnology, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab. Her talk, Embodied Intelligence & the Future of the Performing Body, highlighted her current research methods …
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Affinity
On November 12th Transforma Theatre, in partnership with The Cell, held their first annual Science in Theatre Festival, a celebration of the alignment of theatre and science. The three day event featured original plays crafted through the collaboration of playwrights and scientists, innovative technology presentations, and panels held between creators and experts. Dr. Heidi Boisvert collaborated with playwright Alexis Roblan …
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El Aleph: Festival de Arte y Ciencia
Dr. Heidi Boisvert was invited to speak at El Aleph: Festival of Art and Science, a Mexico-based festival where the boundaries between art and science are broken through talks, workshops, theater, music, dance and film performances given by international scientists and artists. Boisvert shared studies from past pop culture campaigns that used emerging technology as a method to promote and …
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algorithms, biometric, brain-computer interfaces, culture change, data, ethics, media effects, media genome, neuroscience, open-source, predictive models, Science, social justice, Social Media, Technology
- May 25, 2021
Culture Changes Us: How Stories Work on Hearts, Minds & Bodies
Heidi Boisvert was invited to speak at the University of Connecticut for their Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design: 2021 Speaker Series. She shared some case studies of past pop culture campaigns that employed emerging technology to advance social issues with social justice organizations. She also detailed her current research methods and insights from the Limbic Lab. You can …
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algorithms, biometric, brain-computer interfaces, culture change, data, empathy, ethics, machine learning, media effects, media genome, multimedia, narrative shift, neuroscience, open-source, predictive models, Science, social justice, Social Media, Technology, video
- March 14, 2021
Radical Evolution: 10 Glimpses into the Future
NEW INC hosted an afternoon of virtual presentations from their Creative Science track to explore the various topics the diverse cohort members research, ranging from how to empower communities with data sets to why eating invasive species is crucial. During the livestreamed zoom event Heidi Boisvert shared how the mind is imprinted by tech and society and futurePerfect lab’s unique …
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ai, algorithms, augmented coginition, Augmented Reality, biometric, brain-computer interfaces, dance, data, data science, design, machine learning, multimedia, Technology
- February 20, 2021
Guild of Future Architects Share Day
Over the past five months CEO Heidi Boisvert, with Sydney Skybetter and Melissa Painter, incubated and prototyped Embodied Intelligence. This intuitive framework re-engages people with their bodies through games, open-source tools, community-building, and public awareness campaigns in the age of technology and surveillance. Embodied Intelligence asks the question: what would happen if we put our bodies first. Embodied Intelligence is …
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Augmented Reality, dance, design, ethics, media effects, multimedia, narrative shift, open-source, social justice, Technology
- December 4, 2020
Unity for Humanity Summit 2020
On October 21-22 Unity hosted their 2020 Unity for Humanity Summit. Heidi was invited to speak at the two day summit for creators, activists, nonprofits, funders, philanthropists, and brands using 3D technology to spark social impact. Heidi used this opportunity to discuss futurePerfect Lab’s new project LeanOn during a fireside chat, “Turning data into future COVID preparedness.” She engaged in …
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