Title (eng)
A Cyborg’s Mirror
Exploring posthuman feminist embodiment through a cyborg-choreographic interface
Author
Katherine Helen Fisher
Hyperreal Lab
Author
Mingyong Cheng
Description (eng)
This paper presents A Cyborg’s Mirror, an interactive performance using real-time generative AI and audience inputs to critically examine identity and embodiment in technologically mediated environments. Drawing on cyborg feminism and posthuman theories, the work disrupts binaries like human/machine and physical/virtual, presenting identity as fluid and co-constructed. Through AI-generated imagery and audience interaction, performers’ bodies become dynamic sites of negotiation, where technology amplifies societal pressures while enabling new expression. By situating hybrid bodies in hyperreal spaces, the piece explores power, representation, and selfhood, questioning human agency’s entanglement with algorithmic processes. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations, design methodology, and insights from public presentations, showing how these interactions redefine embodiment and critique digital mediation’s influence on identity in the age of generative AI.
Keywords (eng)
Generative AI in Performance ArtParticipatory PerformanceHybrid EmbodimentReal-Time Audience InteractionCyborg Feminism
Type (eng)
journal article
Language
[eng]
Persistent identifier
https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:6073
DOI
10.48341/xsy7-da97
Is in series
Title (deu)
Mad Opinions
Publication
Zentrum für Angewandte Spieleforschung, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
Date issued
2026-02-24
License
All rights reserved