Dance Out of Pattern

Luna Maurer

In Dance Out of Pattern, I created a digital dance companion — a framework comprised of an LLM, fed by a recording camera’s eye and varying word-based prompts, which in turn produces detailed feedback, comments, suggestions and stories in the form of a humanoid voice. On a daily basis, while I dance, I react to these words whispered in my ears. With DOOP, I generate a wide array of dance experiments, searching for the ones that touch the very core of what inspires me to move.

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    Luna Maurer, Netherlands (2025)

    Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer, and author with a focus on digital technologies' impact on daily life. She explores human characteristics through installations, performances, web...

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    Luna Maurer, Netherlands (2025)

    Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer, and author with a focus on digital technologies' impact on daily life. She explores human characteristics through installations, performances, web experiences, and films, often blending digital and physical elements. Co-founding studio Moniker in 2012 with a similar focus, her clients include cultural institutions like Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, M+ Museum Hong Kong and technology companies like Google and Mozilla Foundation.
    Currently, she's redefining perspectives on digital technology, co-authoring the Designing Friction manifesto advocating friction in digital culture. Her Conditional Design Manifesto, authored in 2010, continues to have global influence. Originally from Stuttgart, Germany, she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Maurer has taught at various institutions internationally, including Yale University School of Art, and has won numerous awards, including several Dutch Design Awards, a Webby, the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts oeuvre award, and most recently, the Golden Calf (the Dutch equivalent of an Oscar) for her outstanding performance.

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