The Handprint and the Hand

The Handprint and the Hand is an interdisciplinary dance performance using new media. Created by Tara Rose Morris (visuals) and Kin Nguien (dance), the work explores how AI-driven vision systems capture and erase human presence. Presented at InterAccess as part of its Gateway 2025 program, it features a dancer accompanied by a projection of her performance.

This projection uses AI-assisted motion capture and human-created visuals to produce scenes where the dancer’s body is either visible or omitted in the digital space. The performance questions what is made visible, what is ignored, and how technology redefines authorship, asking: “Where does meaning reside when human work is reduced to machine-readable fragments?”

Made with: Unreal Engine, TouchDesigner, p5.js, Three.js, and live projection.