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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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
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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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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