Collective Choreography explores how humans interpret the movements of machines and assign meaning to them. The installation features a robotic arm equipped with an infrared sensor that tracks the position and movement of nearby viewers. Its gestures come from a shared movement library developed collaboratively through workshops, meaning the robot’s behaviour reflects collective human decisions rather than a single author. As people move through the space, the robot selects and rearranges gestures in response, producing improvised sequences that unfold in relation to its audience. A machine-learning system monitors how long viewers engage with the work, allowing the robot to gradually favour movements that hold attention longer. Over time, this creates a feedback loop between human behaviour and machine action.

The work does not attempt to anthropomorphise the machine, but instead technologises the human observer, treating attention, curiosity, and presence as measurable data. In doing so, it questions how meaning, intention, and personality are projected onto machine movement.