NIME 2026: Speculative design & gen AI music workshop
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman <[email protected]>
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If you are interested in speculative design around AI and music data and are attending NIME 2026 (or in London and interested in attending NIME), Fabio Morreale, S. M. Astrid Bin, PhD, Giacomo Lepri, Liam Pram, and myself are hosting a workshop: https://resist-the-capture.surge.sh/
I Resist The Body Electric Workshop: Subverting the Capture of Musical Gestures to Train AI Models
NIME 2026, 23-26 June - London
Application deadline: 15 June
Notification of acceptance: 17 June
We invite participation in a speculative workshop exploring resistance to AI extraction of gestural and embodied data in musical performance.
Generative text-to-music systems have been trained on vast amounts of musical data scraped without consent or remuneration. But so far, one thing remains beyond reach: the embodied, performative dimension of live musical practice. Advances in robotics and LLM-powered systems suggest that the live performance space may soon become a target for large-scale extraction by AI companies.
Drawing on anticipatory ethics and speculative design, this workshop invites participants to first imagine hypothetical technologies designed to covertly steal gestural data from performers — and then build conceptual prototypes to protect against them. Through collective speculation and discussion, we aim to surface the ethical, technical, and political questions surrounding gestural data and AI-driven music.
We invite interested participants to submit a speculative device designed to steal gestural data: a brief description, and optional media, focusing on a particular musical gesture and how your device would capture it covertly. Submissions can be written, drawn, crafted, or a combination, up to two pages.
Submit your fictional object via the application form.
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