Alexandra Huang-Kokina

Dates

Talks, conference papers, opera, workshops, concerts and conferences

Upcoming

  1. Co-creation workshop with Malmö OperaMalmö, SwedenWorkshop
  2. ‘Who Shapes the Opera? Immersive Opera, Emotion Engine and the Intelligent Stage’University of Leeds Music Research SeminarInvited talk
  3. Ghost of the AI Empire: The Covenant premiereCosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, ManchesterOpera
  4. ‘OperAI: The Intelligent Stage’IRCAM Forum Tokyo. LinkInvited talk
  5. ‘Immersive Storytelling and the Intelligent Stage in the Ghost of the AI Empire opera’Beyond 2026, a creative industry conference at Media City, ManchesterInvited talk
  6. Emotion, Empathy, Trust & Creativity in AIManchester Museum, The University of ManchesterConference

Past

2026

  1. Future of Opera: workshop with English National Opera’s Tuning into OperaManchesterWorkshop
  2. ‘Radical Innovations in AI-Driven Opera’Creative Manchester Research Seminar (The Past, Present & Future of the Computer in Electronic Music)Invited talk
  3. ‘Vanishing Acts: AI, Performative Knowledge and Sustainable Memory’University of MaltaInvited talk

2025

  1. ‘Experience report from the interactive AI opera premiere’AI Lund network research seminar, Lund, Sweden. VideoInvited talk
  2. Yūrei: AI Kaidan, Swedish and European premiereSkissernas Museum, Lund, SwedenOpera
  3. ‘Vocal Clones & Digital Doubles: Navigating the AI Voice Era’At the Music Frontiers Conference by Music & Tech Germany (Berlin, Germany). LinkInvited talk
  4. ‘AI in Chamber Music: From Creative Collections to Collective Creativity’EGOS Conference on ‘Creativity that Goes a Long Way’, Athens, GreeceConference paper
  5. Creative Digital Dynamics VI: Performance at the Arts & Science Innovation ForumUnexpected 2025, Lund, SwedenConcert
  6. ‘Performative Craft: AI Crafting Collective Creativity for Immersive Chamber Music Performances’Kyoto Craft Workshop, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JapanConference paper
  7. Yūrei: AI Kaidan, Edinburgh premiereEdinburgh Futures Institute, University of EdinburghOpera
  8. AI & Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal MusicEdinburgh Futures InstituteConference
  9. ‘AI in Opera: The case of adapting Yotsuya Kaidan into an immersive “science-fiction” opera’Intermediality Workshop, University of EdinburghConference paper
  10. ‘AI Crafting Collective Creativity?: Radical mediation, speculative fiction and immersive storytelling’Guest lecture for Edinburgh Futures Institute (‘Narrative Futures’ postgraduate programme)Invited talk
  11. Creative Digital Dynamics V: Beyond the ScoreSkissernas Museum, Lund, SwedenConcert
  12. ‘Intermediality and Digital Humanities: A Lecture on New Media Cultures’Linnaeus University, SwedenInvited talk

2024

  1. ‘Remediating Chamber Music Practices: AI Mediation for Intermedia Performances through Word-and-Music Interactions’The International Word and Music Studies Forum, University of Cologne, GermanyInvited talk
  2. ‘Intermediality, Music & Literature: From musical fiction to multimedia performances’Department of English Literature at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityInvited talk
  3. ‘Emotion AI and Affective Robots: AI innovations in multimodal emotional transmediation in 21st-century digitally-mediated opera’The First International Conference in AI Music Studies 2024, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. ConferenceConference paper
  4. Creative Digital Dynamics IV: Concert lecture for the International Word and Music Association ForumCologne, GermanyConcert
  5. ‘OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre’The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. Event pageInvited talk
  6. ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence: AI perspectives on emotional transmediation in science-fiction opera’Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond, the 7th conference of the International Society of Intermedial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden. ConferenceConference paper
  7. ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence: AI perspectives on in 21st-century Taiwanese science-fiction narratives’From the Invention of Writing to the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: Cultural Approaches to Information Technology, Interfaceing 2024 conference, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. ConferenceConference paper
  8. ‘Touching through Music: Pianistic touch and the transmission of affect’Orpheus Institute & Ghent University, BelgiumInvited talk
  9. ‘Intermedial Musical Poetries: Voice Translation and the Transmission of Affect in Feng Zhi’s Sonnets and Jiang Wenye’s Peking Inscriptions’The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA): Modernism between Past and Future, the University of Hong Kong. ConferenceConference paper
  10. AI & Digital Innovations for Inter-art Chamber Music PracticesUniversity of LondonConference
  11. Creative Digital Dynamics III: AI & Digital Innovations for Inter-art Chamber Music PracticesSenate House Library, University of LondonConcert
  12. ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence for New Music Theatre: Enhancing artificial-human co-creativity in contemporary science-fiction opera’Department of Music and Art, LinnéuniversitetetInvited talk
  13. Creative Digital Dynamics II: Digital TransformationsEdinburgh Society of Musicians, EdinburghConcert
  14. ‘Emotion AI: A multimodal exploration of artificial emotional intelligence through opera with Alexandra Huang-Kokina’Institutionen för film och litteratur, LinnéuniversitetetInvited talk
  15. ‘Intermediality and Digitalisation’Workshop for the PhD course, the Graduate School in Multimodality and Intermediality: Humanities Research in a Digital World (MID World) at Linnaeus & Örebro University, SwedenInvited talk
  16. ‘AI, Music & Digital Humanities’A guest lecture for the University of Monterrey (Mexico)Invited talk
  17. ‘Exploring the Performativity of Affect in the Intermedial Musical Poetries’Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today: An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop, the University of Edinburgh. WorkshopConference paper
  18. Creative Digital Dynamics I: Digital TransformationsVäxjö, SwedenConcert
  19. ‘Intermediality and Digital Humanities’Guest lecture at Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Sweden. Event pageInvited talk

2023

  1. ‘Reimagining Future Soundscapes: Piano performance beyond traditional concert settings in early-20-century piano novels’Brown Bag Seminar Series at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, the School of Advanced Studies at the University of LondonConference paper
  2. ‘Exploring Affective Performativity in the Intermedial Musical Poetries by Ojārs Vācietis’Affective Intermediality International Conference, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania. ConferenceConference paper
  3. ‘The Performative Logic of Modern Essays: Exploring the Autonomy of the Essay Form in Philosophy and Literature’Logic and Modern Literature, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandConference paper
  4. ‘Intermedial Musical Poetries: Voice Translation and the Transmission of Affect in Feng Zhi’s Sonnets’British Association for Chinese Studies, King’s College LondonConference paper
  5. ‘Resonating Bodies: Exploring the Transformative Affect in Piano Performance’Intermediality and the Body Symposium, Lund University, SwedenConference paper

2022

  1. Flaming June Chamber Music ConcertBirdsNest Art Gallery, EdinburghRecital
  2. ‘Pianistic Singing as Hopeful Female Voice in Early Twentieth-Century Novels’Hopeful Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies 2022 Conference, University of BristolConference paper
  3. ‘The Ethics of Wagnerian Death in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Jacob’s Room’The 2022 International Conference on Virginia Woolf, onlineConference paper
  4. ‘Musical Performativity of the Piano Novels by Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf’Northeast Modern Language Association’s 53rd Annual Convention, Johns Hopkins University & The University of Buffalo, U.S.A.Conference paper
  5. ‘The Pianistic Performance Ecosystem in the Novels by Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann’Words, Music and Environment Virtual Conference by the Forum at the International Association of Word and Music Studies, onlineConference paper

2021

  1. ‘Musical Performativity of Piano Performance in Thomas Mann’s Tristan, E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View, and Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out’Acoustic Text Symposium, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeConference paper
  2. ‘Inter-subjective Musical Connectivity: Virtuosic Piano-playing in Tristan, A Room with a View, and The Voyage Out’13th GradNet Annual Conference, University of SouthamptonConference paper

2020

  1. Ode to Autumn: Chopin in Scotland in 1848FilmRecital
  2. Piano Recital: Bach, Chopin and GinasteraRoyal Conservatoire of Scotland, recorded onlineRecital
  3. ‘Reconfiguring the Positivity of Death Narratives in Virginia Woolf’s Novelistic Writing’English Literature Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of EdinburghConference paper

2019

  1. ‘Happiness in Sweet Death: A Positive Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and The Waves’Happiness: Enlightenment to Present Conference, University of CambridgeConference paper
  2. ‘Word and Music Studies: Surveying beyond Cultural and Aesthetic Fields’Taiwanese Scholars in Scotland Symposium, Taiwanese Scholars Association in ScotlandConference paper

2018

  1. St Cecilia’s Concert Hall Special PerformanceSt Cecilia’s Hall & Music Museum, EdinburghRecital

2017

  1. Echoes Across Oceans: Melodies of Distant PianoRecital

2016

  1. Taipei Art Fringe PerformanceTaipeiRecital

2015

  1. Spiritual Time Piano RecitalRecital

2014

  1. Winterreise Piano RecitalRecital