Sydney Skybetter/ Founding Producer

Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer. Hailed by the Financial Times as “One of the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies,” Sydney’s choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at SXSW, Yale, Mozilla and the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, and The University of Southern California, among others. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Creative Capital “Wild Futures” Award. He is a Senior Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard University, a frequent contributor to WIRED and Dance Magazine, the Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and Host of the podcast, “Dances with Robots.” Sydney serves as the Deputy Dean of the College for Curriculum and Co-Curriculum, is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, and was the first choreographer at Brown University to receive tenure. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner, their feral children and a supposedly hypoallergenic cat.

Ariane Michaud/ Executive Producer

Ariane Michaud is a producer focused on cultivating communities that support the arts and promote social justice. Her passion for dance has led her to diverse roles within the industry, including serving as a producer for DANCE NOW NYC, a communications specialist for JUNTOS Collective, and the North American Tour Manager for Wang Ramirez. As an independent consultant, she has provided strategic planning, production, and project management support to individuals and nonprofit organizations. Ariane became the Executive Producer of The Conference for Research on Choreograph Interfaces (CRCI) in 2019, and has since led multiple large-scale conferences and projects, including the Dances with Robots Podcast, released in Fall 2023, for which she also served as the script-writer and co-host.

Kate Gow / ARCHIVIST

Kate Gow is an archivist and designer of digital spaces. Her work revolves around memory, the body, and how we interact and perform with technology. She graduated as valedictorian from The Boston Conservatory, pioneering the Conservatory’s first emphasis in Dance & Technology. In her sixth year with CRCI, she is moved to be documenting the conference that unveiled to her the power and significance of artistic intelligence. You can find her in performance and behind the scenes in the design space at Thought Industries.

Kiri Miller/ CoNSULTING Producer

Kiri Miller is Professor of American Studies and Music (Ethnomusicology) at Brown. Her work focuses on participatory culture, popular music, interactive digital media, and virtual/visceral performance practices. Her latest book, Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media (Oxford, 2017), investigates how dance video games teach choreography, remediate popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and stage domestic surveillance as intimate recognition. Her previous monographs are Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford, 2012) and Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Illinois, 2008). 

Kevin Clark/ consulting producer

Kevin Clark builds mission-driven technology. As a delivery lead at VMware Tanzu Labs and Tanzu Act he leads a team of product managers consulting in the social impact, government, and higher education sectors. Before joining Labs, Kevin consulted on technology and program design with philanthropy organizations including Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, New Music USA, Creative Capital, and the MAP Fund. Active as a composer, Kevin’s theatrical works have drawn on the lives of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, and the twitter bot Census Americans.