Danielle Adair’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of media and performance, with attention to affect and sound. Her artistic works have premiered in exhibition, screening, theater and concert venues internationally, and she holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA with Honors from The University of Chicago. Adair’s dissertation, The iPhone Effect: Art and Performance During a Media Revolution, analyzes how the ubiquity of smartphone technology both magnifies and obfuscates the physical body in physical environments and how performance strategies can point to deeper qualities and potentials of the medium. In this work, Adair explores the history of agential AI and the development of voice assistants. At HAI, Adair will consider the ethics of new forms of performance generated through AI. She is interested in performances that do not remediate known aesthetics and behaviors but stage yet unimagined experiences.