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AlexandraHuang-Kokina

Bicentenary Fellow in Music, University of ManchesterArtistic Director, Operactive Arts

The sea from Ghost of the AI Empire, built by Operactive Arts and running live in your browser. In the theatre, the audience’s phones raise the storm. Here, you do. Move the mouse quickly to raise the wind, or use the bar. Drag to turn the view.Use the bar to raise the storm. Tap Look around, then drag to turn the view.

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Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina

Academic, pianist, and creative director based in the U.K. and Sweden

Alexandra Huang-Kokina designs, writes and directs immersive operas that their audiences help to shape, and her practice directly informs her research. Her current work uses opera as a case study and an engine for collaborative creativity, harnessing AI and data science to expand participatory and artistic possibilities.

Now
Bicentenary Fellow in Music, University of ManchesterArtistic Director, Operactive Arts co-founded 2024
Fellowships
Associate Fellow, Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity, Lund UniversityVisiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCLResearch Associate, Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of EdinburghDigital Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Edinburgh 2024–25
Training
PhD, University of Edinburgh 2023Master’s in piano performance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 2020Languages, Literatures and Cultures, National Taiwan University

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What’s next

  1. Who Shapes the Opera? Immersive Opera, Emotion Engine and the Intelligent StageFaculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures research seminar, School of Music, University of Leeds
  2. Ghost of the AI Empire: The Covenant premiereCosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester
  3. OperAI: The Intelligent StageIRCAM Forum Tokyo
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