Calling all artists, venue directors, funders, technologists, and researchers
IJAD Innovation Lab Day 3 — Human AI: Artistic Intelligence
📅 Friday, 26 June 2026
🕘 9:00 am–4:30 pm
📍 Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
Seven sessions. One urgent question:
Who is at risk in this sector right now, and is this the moment to build infrastructure before those risks become embedded?
One room. Real conversations. Real commitments.
Book now via the link in bio
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#IJAD #InnovationLabDay #ILD3 #Artists #VenueDirectors #Funders #Technologists #Researchers #Creatives #CreativeEcoSystem
Couldn't make our most recent Connective Matrix roundtable on Capturing the Body in Motion?
Catch up on the highlights of this important conversation on motion capture, reflecting on the moment movement enters digital systems, and what is gained, lost, or altered in the process, with guest speakers Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Ferran Gordillo Palahí and Dr. Suzan Tunca.
You can also now watch a recording of the session via our on demand platform @openonlinetheatre
A challenge, a question for you to consider as we reflect on the role of digital in the performing arts: what happens to liveness when technology enters the room? We'd love to know your thoughts!
#DigitalArts #Mocap #MotionCapture #ImmersiveArts #PerformingArts
Interested in how physical movement translates into digital spaces, and what that means for artists and creators, reflecting on what is gained, lost, or altered in the process?
Our next Connective Matrix roundtable, Capturing the Body in Motion, is coming up on Wednesday 4 March at 1pm and we'd love to see you there. Please share the details!
Our speakers will include:
✅ Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Reader in HCI + Dance Artist at UAL Creative Computing Institute UAL: University of the Arts London
✅ Ferran Gordillo Palahí, a stage, audiovisual and XR creator working at the intersection of theatre, live cinema and real-time digital environments
✅ Dr. Suzan Tunca, as a dance researcher, performer, choreographer and educator, currently responsible for the ICK Academy
Book your free place via the @openonlinetheatre website, link in bio.
#PerformingArts #Mocap #MotionCapture #CreativeTechnologies #DigitalDance #DigitalArts
Have you booked your FREE Connective Matrix ticket yet?
Join us on Wednesday 4 March as we explore the use of motion capture tools in the performing arts, and reflect on the moment movement enters digital systems, considering what is gained, lost, or altered in the process.
Speakers include Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Reader in HCI + Dance Artist at UAL Creative Computing Institute University of the Arts London; @ferran_gordillo , a stage, audiovisual and XR creator working at the intersection of theatre, live cinema and real-time digital environments; and Dr. Suzan Tunca, as a dance researcher, performer, choreographer and educator, currently responsible for the ICK Academy.
Book your place via the link in our bio 🔗
#PerformingArts #Dance #MotionCapture
Image: OOTFest25 panel discussion | @alice_underwood_films
We're hiring!
IJAD is looking for a creative and collaborative freelance Digital Marketing & Engagement Lead to grow our online presence, connect with audiences, and support innovative live, hybrid, and digital performance projects. This role suits someone who sees digital marketing as dialogue — not just promotion.
Apply by 19 March.
Check out the full details of the role via the link in our bio 🔗
#ArtsJobs #DanceJobs #FreelanceJobs
Save the date: Connective Matrix is back!
Our next Connective Matrix roundtable will be coming up on Wednesday 4 March at 1pm with Capturing the Body in Motion. The conversation will bring artists and experts in motion capture together to reflect on the moment movement enters digital systems, and what is gained, lost, or altered in the process.
Our speakers will include:
☑️ Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Reader in HCI + Dance Artist at UAL Creative Computing Institute University of the Arts London
☑️ Ferran Gordillo, a stage, audiovisual and XR creator working at the intersection of theatre, live cinema and real-time digital environments
☑️ Dr. Suzan Tunca, as a dance researcher, performer, choreographer and educator, currently responsible for the ICK Academy
Book your free place for the session via the link in our bio 🔗
#PerformingArts #MotionCapture #Mocap #DigitalDance
As December comes to an end, we're looking ahead to 2026...
Next year, we have several exciting projects and activities planned, including:
✨Opening 30-minute exploratory sessions for artists wishing to bring their work into XR, MR, AI or hybrid digital performance.
✨Hamlet year 2 where IJAD and Hamlet Partners are going to make their AI platform available for workshops in physical and digital space.
✨Running a series of Connective Matrix roundtable discussions around IP and AI, XR, MR, how to onboard AI, meet the makers and much more. These sessions provide space for early ideas, questions and co-creative conversations with experts.
✨Looking to remap our OOT Arts/Tech residency for a new cohort of artists.
See you in the new year!
Photo by Alice Underwood | Resonant Silence at OOTFest25, created by Zhou Zhou
This year has been a tapestry of experimentation, collaboration and ethical innovation. As we step into 2026, IJAD remains committed to shaping a future that is live hybrid, relational and, above all, human.
What this year taught us
✨IJAD is developing in live hybrid dramaturgy and sensography, polygonos structuring the dramaturgy.
✨Researching and identifying how to question and approach the IP within the arts–tech sector.
✨The live hybrid festival model is ready for wider integration and roll out.
✨Co-creation is becoming both our methodology and our identity.
✨Sensography in between dramaturgy offers pathways for training, publication and international development.
What did you learn this year?
Support the next generation of artists 🙏
Please consider donating to IJAD's programmes this Christmas, with Gift Aid now available. The generosity of our funders and supporters means we can continue to create exciting opportunities for artists and make performance accessible to all. Your donation will help drive innovation in the performing arts and support resident artists as they inspire audiences.
Donate today via the @openonlinetheatre website, link in bio
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As we come towards the end of another year, we want to say a huge thank you to all our supporters, our funders, partners, artists and audiences. Thank you for being a part of our journey in 2025!
Here are a few of our 2025 highlights...
✨Phygital/ Fygital Practice & The Tempest
A three-day R&D for The Tempest grew into a major exploration of phygital space, motion capture and virtual production. Working with Ben Turnbull, UAL and London College of Fashion, we refined sensography as a way of keeping the performer’s liveness central, even as their work moves across multiple realities.
✨OOT Arts/Tech Residency
Thirteen artists joined our hybrid Arts/Tech Residency, supported by partners in the arts, education and technology sectors. Together, the artists explored XR, MR, AI, Unreal Engine, motion capture and volumetric tools, deepening relationships with @vipstudiouon , @lcflondon_ and others, including @milkitstudio and @move_ai_
✨OOTFest25 (UN)SEEN
Live-streamed via Open Online Theatre, the festival demonstrated how hybrid formats extend access and creativity. Panels and workshops highlighted the ethical and artistic challenges shaping the sector.
✨Ethics, care & Intellectual Property, focus on the human element
Across the year, we strengthened IJAD’s commitment to artists’ rights, with enhanced IP protocols, transparent attribution and ethical frameworks for AI-assisted creativity. Care remains the foundation of our innovation.
✨AI & The Hamlet Consortium
HAMLET (Human-centred generative AI framework for cultural industry's digital transition) is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action that addresses the digital transformation challenges faced by Europe's Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). The project aims to democratise generative AI technologies while ensuring that human creativity, artistic integrity, and cultural diversity remain at the centre of technological innovation.
📸 @alice_underwood_films | OOTFest25
Connective Matrix is our forum series of roundtable and panel discussions, bringing together specialists and researchers working across performing arts, technology, and multiple realities ✨
📢 The programme will return in 2026 and we're looking for potential speakers who have something interesting to say about the future of AI and the arts. You might be a performing artist, an academic, researcher or technologist, a producer or programmer for an arts venue, or work for a start up.
If you're interested in joining one of our discussions, we'd love to hear from you - and we'd love your recommendations if you know someone who fits the bill!
To register your interest, email [email protected] with a bit about who you are, what you do and the topics you'd like to talk about.
#AI #PerformingArts #Talks
Terms and Conditions reflects on the aesthetics of surveillance, the abstraction of the self, and the emotional residue of digital life. It asks: In a world of constant connectivity, what part of us remains off-screen?
Drawing from choreography, expanded cinema, and performance art, the piece examines how identity is constructed and distorted through systems of surveillance and data capture.
If you missed it at #OOTFest25, you can now watch the piece via our on demand service @openonlinetheatre , link in bio 🔗
Created by @pierre.engelhard
Photos: @alice_underwood_films
#ContemporaryDance #Dance #PerformingArts #CreativeTechnologies
