Design Informatics Seminar Series: Barbara Sellers-Young

Lived Body in Motion is an exploration of embodied memory, dance, and autoethnographic inquiry through a recursive dialogue with artificial intelligence. Blending scholarly reflection, intercultural fieldwork, and somatic experience, the manuscript examines how knowledge lives in the body—and how it might be rearticulated through interaction with AI. Across immersive engagements with Belly Dance, Japanese classical dance, and Azande communal movement, the project reflects on movement as memory, pedagogy as identity, and AI as a reflexive partner. In dialogue with intelligent interlocutors Saffi 1 and 2 developed by Dominic Blais, the project stages a live interrogation of perception, narrative, and digital collaboration. It argues for an embodied epistemology grounded in human‑machine interplay, offering new directions for qualitative inquiry in the digital age.