The duo traced the roots of their approach to Merce Cunningham’s “chance dance” method, computational choreography, the E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) movement of the 1960s, as well as embodied approaches to human–machine collaboration pioneered by early women in digital art.

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The lecture focused on their seminal work Human Unreadable, through which hundreds of art collectors came to own choreographic sequences. The work unfolded in three acts over three years, bringing blockchain art into the body and the body into blockchain art. Human Unreadable was not only an exploration of the tension between privacy and transparency inherent in blockchain technology, but also proposed a transformed future vision for the patronage, dissemination, generation, and experience models of performance.

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Ania Catherine @aniacatherine (b. 1990, US) and Dejha Ti @dejhati (b. 1985, US) are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy and extractive technologies began with their installation On View (2019), commissioned by SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology. For their seminal work Human Unreadable, they created an on-chain generative choreography method.

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Published: 2026-01-25
Author: Creative Coding Barcelona