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Daria, I appreciate the way in which you bring body, movement, choreography, politics, affect and computation here. Thank you for the new to me references to historical examples of choreography as a form of computation and governance.

Your reflection on the body's function in all of it started me on thinking about affect too and how it comes to be, what triggers it in the choreographic environments that you describe. I, like others too, associate affect with the the body, and what it can do, and how it is affected by algorithmic and data-based practices that often act without the body in its immediate proximity. So I am interested in the difference/similarity between choreography and algorithms as acting on bodies.

There are two examples that you refer to in your text, which I am curious about and would be curious to discuss this in the context of how these different practices act on bodies. The function of dancer's body as a screen and a device for projecting affect, and the use of Descript's Eye Contact Feature or NVIDIA’s Eye Contact technologies by OnlyFans performers to faciliate closeness and feeling of intimacy.

Looking forward to the discussions in the next days.