Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus Artificial Realities / Daily programme / Full focus programme

How to rob a bank?

A peculiar news story from a few years ago: 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 didn't outsmart AI, they OUT-WEIRDED it. And nobody caught them. They got away with twelve thousand euros.

Gaitless, an experimental and participatory dance performance created by choreographer Marko Milić and technologist Uroš Krčadinac. The performance invites the audience on stage, into an interactive dance space exploring anti-surveillance and anti-AI tactics as choreographic concepts. The choreographic principle is to deceive machine perception and develop tactics against surveillance. How does technology move our bodies (not only our fingers)? And how to move in order not to be perceived as human?

Marko Milić works as an author in the field of dance and multimedia. He has created numerous artworks exploring 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. Uroš Krčadinac is a digital artist, software engineer, author and educator. His transdisciplinary practice includes programming, writing, animation and artistic cartography. As an educator and public lecturer, he designed and held over a hundred public lectures, forums and workshops. 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.