Gaitless
- Dance & performance
- Part of the Iridescent Festival
45 min.
09.11.2025
Sunday
19:30
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GAITLESS is an interactive dance space exploring anti-surveillance and anti-AI tactics as choreographic concepts.
The idea came from a peculiar news story: a group of bank robbers allegedly outwitted AI-powered security cameras by rolling instead of walking – bypassing motion detection systems trained to recognize human gait. It was a subversive act of evasion, but also, in an unexpected way, a dance performance. The robbers were accidental dancers. Their improvised movements exposed the flaws in AI perception.
The paradox of Gaitless is that participants, in proving they are in the eyes of AI not human, prove they in fact are human – strange and creative. The act of subverting machine perception becomes a choreographic principle.
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A few years ago I saw a peculiar news story: a group of bank robbers robbed the bank by fooling surveillance cameras powered by artificial intelligence. These cameras were programmed to recognize human motions. Human gaits. But robbers did not walk like humans. Robbers rolled, robbers crawled, robbers moved strangely, and robbers outwitted the AI.
They haven’t outsmarted the AI, they OUT-WEIRDED it.
This is how they moved.
And they robbed the bank. And nobody caught them. And they got away with twelve thousand euros.
- By 2040, 92% of recorded human movement will be algorithmically categorized, leaving only 8% of gestures beyond AI recognition.
- 48% of global communication will be generated by AI, making human-to-human interaction increasingly rare.
- The average attention span will shrink to 5.2 seconds, as algorithms optimize content for instant gratification.
- Will machine-learning models surpass human ability to invent original dance moves?
Concept and Direction: Uroš Krčadinac & Marko Milić × MIREVI
Creative Development and Support: Ivana Družetić-Vogel, Patrick Kruse, Ben Fischer
Dance: Anke Plaßmann, Uroš Krčadinac, Marko Milić powered by: Milica Urić, Predrag Mladenović
Multimedia Software Development: Ben Fischer
Music: Kӣr
Video and photography: Leon Loesch
Special thanks: Fabian Büntig, Lorenz Grau, Anna Freytag, Stefan Schwarz
Country: Serbia
Biographies
Marko Milić works as an author in the field of dance and multimedia. He has created and co-created numerous artworks, most notably DILF, KOREOEROTIKON, PSP, ЯTUCORA, and LUMI. Each explores themes such as the physical manifestations of pleasure, how overwhelming experiences shape our interactions, whether strong sexual fantasies can exist without trauma, and what knowledge can be conveyed through dance. His work has been exhibited and performed at various festivals worldwide, including ImPulsTanz, TanzImAugust, Perforacije, FIDQU, Kampnagel – Treffen Total, Kondenz, Il faut brûler pour briller, GNARL festival, and CoFestival.
https://markomilic.portfoliobox.net
Uroš Krčadinac (b. 1984) is a digital artist, software engineer, author and educator. His transdisciplinary practice includes programming, writing, animation and artistic cartography. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University in Belgrade. Uroš published his research papers in the M21 IEEE journals, while he exhibited his artistic works at numerous solo and group exhibitions, festivals and conferences in Serbia and abroad. As an educator and public lecturer, he designed and held over a hundred public lectures, forums and workshops. He has held several solo exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. He is the co-author of one infographic travel novel. He currently works as an associate professor of digital arts and computing at the Department of Digital Art, Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade. He also works as a research associate at the GOOD OLD AI laboratory of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade and as a visiting professor at the Department of New Media Art at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
https://krcadinac.com/
The presentation is the result of the MODINA residency. The Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA) project aims to expand the creative possibilities of contemporary dance performances and enhance the audience experience with digital technology – with a focus on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. The project partners are 3 academic institutions and 5 dance centers from 6 countries.
The MODINA project is co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the funding authority can be held responsible for them.
Supported by
Ministerul Culturii, Aerowaves, Moving Balkans, MODINA, Creative Europe, Teatrul Național București, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Cinema Union, Cărturești
Media Partners
Scena9, Zile și Nopți, Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro, Daily Magazine, Munteanu Recomandă.
