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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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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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
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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Becoming America Fund
FuturePerfect Lab is proud to be among the initial round of grantees in Pop Culture Collaberative‘s Becoming America Fund. This funding will allow us to continue our work in supporting the pop culture for social change field by using our current Limbic Lab framework, along with newly developed linguistic analysis and data scraping tools, to conduct real-time audience research. By collaborating …
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ai, biometric, brain-computer interfaces, culture change, empathy, media effects, media genome, narrative shift, neuroscience, social justice
- July 28, 2020
Science in Theatre Festival
Transforma Theatre, a NYC based nonprofit, has partnered with The Cell to present a 3 day festival titled Science in Theatre Festival. “Our goal is to align forms of theater with current scientific research in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and epigenetics, and communicate this knowledge of technological possibilities to our audiences in a pioneering way of storytelling,” said Tjaša Ferme, the artistic director …
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Processing Community Day 2020
Processing Community Day NYC is a volunteer-organized event held annually in cooperation with the Processing Foundation and hundreds of other locally-organized collaborators around the world. It is a non-profit, community day, that brings together activists, artists, designers, teachers, programmers and students to learn and connect. This year it was hosted by the New School with additional funding from Code + …
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Ted Talk
How I’m using biological data to tell better stories — and spark social change. Can a TV show make us care about something? Can it move us to act? Heidi Boisvert is developing an open-source biometric lab to find out. She and her team are mapping the galvanizing, hot-button moments in various forms of media, and then trying to determine …
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ai, algorithms, biometric, culture change, data science, empathy, machine learning, media effects, media genome, narrative shift, neuroscience, open-source, predictive models, social justice
- December 1, 2019