Struggle of Seeds

​This event will feature a video exhibition of the robotic performance piece "Struggle of Seeds", which premiered in December 2025, as well as an exhibition of actual robots and talks by artist Masaru Mizuochi, choreographer & performer Shanshan Zhang and roboticist Romario Akiki.

​This event is hosted by curator Luba Elliott and is supported by arebyte Digital Art Centre.

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​Struggle of Seeds is a performance work that merges robotics and dance to explore how “creative seeds” resist the gravitational pull of standardized beauty.

​A robot—trained on centuries of human art—attempts to imitate us by photographing dancers. Yet behind the lens, human performers push back against the machine’s scripted choreography, refusing to inhabit the neatly predicted frame.

​Can these images, and the rebellious gestures that shape them, break through the inherited limits of both human and robotic creativity?

​The robot is not a creature endowed with human traits; rather, it is a mirror that reflects us—and at the same time, a being that acts on its own logic.

​Both robot and human struggle, in their own distinct ways, to escape the average, the expected, the aesthetically “correct.”