The Georgia Institute of Technology is participating in the first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival on Oct. 13-15, 2017 at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. The festival, a gathering of all institutions in the Atlantic Coast Conference, will celebrate creativity and innovation with a specific focus on science, engineering, art, and design.

The festival features performances, conversational talks, and 48 interactive installations from the 15 ACC schools. Georgia Tech will send four projects created by students, faculty, and researchers who are crossing traditional boundaries to develop new possibilities for exploration, expression, and creativity. These projects were selected from among 35 Georgia Tech submissions juried by the ACC Festival Committee:

LuminAI is a dome-based art installation in which participants can engage in collaborative movement improvisation with each other and virtual AI-based dance partners. Rather than focus on the human as master creator and the computer as the traditional “support tool” - LuminAI examines how humans and machines can co-create experiences together. As a result, the LuminAI installation is a movement-based play space where participants can freely dance with AI-based characters. The virtual agents analyze participant movements and improvise responses; in other words, the agents learn how to dance by dancing with us.  For space considerations, the interactive experience at the festival will utilize a large shadow screen. Participants: Brian Magerko, Duri Long, and Mikhail Jacob.

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