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Open CircuitSónar+D HackLab

A shared nervous system, part limb, part circuit.

Year
Category
Interactive Art, Performance, Audiovisual
Medium
Dance, AI and an interactive audiovisual system — Unreal Engine, Ableton Live, OSC
Context
Sónar+D 2026 HackLab
Duration
Three days
Team
Dan — London
Vladi OSSSO — Barcelona
Ori Kadosh
Lerie Pemanagpo — Basel/Barcelona
Tamaris Ellins — London
Alberto Benavent — Alicante
Yichu Li — London/New York
Sónar 2026 +D title over a photograph of participants working with laptops and music equipment

Making perception visible

We never normally meet a machine’s perception, only its conclusions: the image, the answer, the output. The interpreting happens somewhere we can’t see. Open Circuit places a body in front of that hidden process and turns it outwards into a dialogue between two unconscious processes: neural network algorithms and corporeal intuition.

Five shifting values

A dancer enters into dialogue with a system that listens, misreads, remembers and responds to their movement. AI translates that movement into five shifting output values: Energy, Chaos, Coherence, Memory and Release. These values return through sound and image as texture, atmosphere and visual memory change: an ambient pressure system the dancer can sense, anticipate and respond to.

A shared nervous system

Neither human nor machine fully leads. Each response changes what follows. What emerges is a feedback loop between body, sound and image: a shared nervous system, part limb, part circuit. We built the project from scratch over three days at Sónar+D 2026 HackLab, connecting Unreal Engine, Ableton Live and OSC. I usually focus on visuals; here, I took on a more sound-oriented role, learning to think differently through the process of creating together.

Seven views trace the system from corporeal gesture through algorithmic interpretation to sound, image and collective response. The arrangement follows the same feedback structure as Open Circuit: no fixed beginning, no final output.

01 · InputBody & movementGesture becomes signal
02 · InterpretationAI listens, misreads, remembers
EnergyChaosCoherenceMemoryRelease
03 · OutputSound & imageAtmosphere returns to the body
Each response changes what follows
01Body + movement A dancer moves behind three participants working at laptops, with blue abstract visuals on a screen.
Rehearsal: movement, sound and image

Open Circuit rehearsal at Sónar+D 2026 HackLab: bringing movement, live sound and visual response into one system.

02Sound control A participant wearing a blue-lit mask operates an illuminated pad controller beside a collaborator and a dancer.
Hands-on sound interaction

Exploring sound interaction during the development of Open Circuit, a collaborative project involving Vladislav OSSSO.

03Corporeal signal Two participants explore hand gestures and movement in the rehearsal room.
Developing the dialogue

Rehearsal and exchange between participants during the three-day Sónar+D HackLab.

04Image output An audience watches performers beneath a large screen filled with orange and white abstract visuals.
Open Circuit in performance

The public performance of Open Circuit at Sónar+D 2026: a feedback loop between body, sound and image.

05System logic Performers work at a laptop showing a node-based interface while a dancer moves in front of an abstract projection.
Inside the audiovisual system

The Open Circuit team operates the audiovisual system during the live performance.

06Collective response Seven participants stand together and bow beneath the Sónar 2026 +D and AI Performance Playground screen.
The team on stage

The Open Circuit team, including Vladislav OSSSO, on stage at AI Performance Playground, Sónar+D 2026.

07Shared memory A participant speaks into a microphone beside the team and other participants on the AI Performance Playground stage.
Sharing the project

Presenting the collaborative process behind Open Circuit at Sónar+D 2026.

Project reference: Open Circuit: Sónar+D HackLab, 2026. Artist profile: Vladislav OSSSO.