The Mumbai phase of EMBODIA – an Indo-Italian scientific and artistic laboratory dedicated to human-AI co-creation in the performing arts – will take place in Mumbai in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
The programme will begin with a movement workshop on 13 April, led by Jayachandran Palazhy, a visionary choreographer, dancer, and educator, renowned for his transformative contributions to contemporary dance. The workshop will introduce participants to body-based approaches to performance and to the role of movement, perception and decision-making within AI-mediated environments.
On 14 April, Italian sound-experience and sound space designer, Lorenzo Brusci and Jayachandran Palazhy will lead a public lecture-demonstration. The session will introduce the EMBODIA project and its three-city mission across India, present a demonstration of RAZAI—the human-AI interaction system developed through the collaboration between Attakkalari and Super AI Studio.
The Mumbai phase forms an important part of the wider EMBODIA initiative, contributing to the creation of long-term collaborations between artists, scientists, universities and cultural institutions in India and Italy, while exploring new possibilities for the ethical and embodied use of AI in the arts.
13 April
Movement Workshop led by Jayachandran Palazhy
10 AM Onwards
14 April
Public Lecture-Demonstration led by Lorenzo Brusci and Jayachandran Palazhy
11 AM Onwards
Venue: Performing Arts Lab, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
Collaborators: IIC Mumbai, IIT Bombay, MUSI-CO, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts