Claude Draude to present at Art of Research 2026

Claude Draude will present her exploratory paper “Resonance Chambers: Bodily Modulation of Generative AI” at the IX Art of Research Conference, taking place November 25–27, 2026, at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Founded twenty years ago and organized by the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, the biennial conference series has been a key forum for dialogue between artistic and design research practices. This year’s theme, “Voices,” explores the many voices that constitute research through arts, design, and architecture, and invites listening beyond the institutional boundaries of academia.

Part of the artistic research project “Echoes Beyond the Prompt,” the paper approaches the theme from what comes before the voice: what happens before anything is spoken or typed as a prompt? Instead of conversational exchange, the contribution draws on the Japanese movement art of Butoh and critical technical practice. Subtle movement and stillness, registered by a chest-worn sensor, modulate the generative parameters of a large language model, such as temperature or output length, while the prompt’s semantic content remains unchanged. These bodily signals are not commands. They inflect the model’s probability space and open a resonance chamber in which hesitation, disturbance, and withdrawal gain significance, and output may arrive delayed, fragmented, or distorted. Fittingly for a conference on voices, the sensor rests on the chest, where singers feel their voice resonate, yet it registers only what does not sound.