TheCode

Charlotte Triebus

Lecture Performance, 2025

Speech, theory and live dance examine how AI sees bodies and how visibility is produced.

Duration
Approximately 30 minutes
Format
Lecture performance with two dancers
Premiere
5 December 2025, 14th Westphalian Cultural Conference, Unna
A wide view of The Code with two dancers and a speaker on stage, a freestanding screen, and the seated audience in the foreground.

Charlotte Triebus speaks alongside Misha Ostenrath and Felicia Nilsson, bringing the research of Precious Camouflage into a live exchange between argument and movement. The performance examines how bodies become machine-readable categories, and what happens at the limits of those translations.

Questions of power, authorship, participation and responsibility emerge through the systems’ interpretations. The Code treats artistic research as a public practice in which the audience can consider its own role in the production and interpretation of images.

Full recording

German version, approx. 25 min

Charlotte Triebus in the lecture-performance recording of The Code.Play full recording

Selected Presentations

“The production points out how AI determines visibility and invisibility and reproduces cultural norms in the process.”

aki, wsp, Westfalenspiegel5 December 2025, Translated from German

“… die in die Tiefe gehende tänzerische Performance …”

Kai Heddergott, LinkedIn22 December 2025, Organiser’s comment
Credits
Concept and lecture
Charlotte Triebus
Assistance
Toby Stöttner
Dance
Misha Ostenrath
Felicia Nilsson
Production
MIREVI Lab
Marie Friedeheim
Mirjam Claaßen
Lighting
Markus Fuchs
Costume
Flora Miranda

Production & support

Produced by MIREVI Lab.

Works

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An eight-minute stereoscopic dance film for two dancers and a seated viewer.

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An interactive installation. Plant movement and a screen image respond to visitors.

afk

Large photographic works in the gallery installation afk.
Two digital bodies intertwined above a landscape in proxy.
Augmented reality dancers seen through a tablet in kin_.
An open copy of Multitudes with drawings and a transparent water-like layer extending beyond its pages.

Research & writing

Agency in the postdigital performing artsDoctoral research

Artistic research into agency in performances involving human bodies and computational systems.

MultitudesResearch comic

Drawing and sequential images as forms of artistic research.

Explore Multitudes

About

Charlotte Triebus is an artist, choreographer and researcher. Her practice brings together dance, installation and technology.

She leads the ensemble New Human Body Society.