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Main Author: Alimujiang, Joshua Nijiati
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19086
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author Alimujiang, Joshua Nijiati
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contents As emergent artificial intelligence technologies increasingly assert roles as assistants within intangible cultural heritage contexts, researchers and artists observe existing questions on the theme of agency negotiation, cultural resistance, and technical critique. This research interrogates power dynamics in human-AI sovereignty and entanglement for nomadic improvisational Dutar performance, a living cultural heritage through a long-necked lute from the Central Asia region. To investigate tensions between human agency and computational hegemony, the researcher and artists examined and iterated a feedback workflow that captures live performance data, processes digital transformations, and creates a real-time interactive art experience via immersive environments. Empirical data from artists and audience reveal modulations where musicians selectively embrace or reject algorithmic suggestions to preserve creative identity. The author concludes that decolonial potential requires redesigning tools or systems for cultural survivance, where technology becomes not merely a feedback environment but a site for decolonial praxis, challenging computational hegemony in digital ecosystems.
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spellingShingle When Strings Tug at Algorithm: Human-AI Sovereignty and Entanglement in Nomadic Improvisational Music Performance as a Decolonial Exploration
Alimujiang, Joshua Nijiati
Human-Computer Interaction
Computers and Society
As emergent artificial intelligence technologies increasingly assert roles as assistants within intangible cultural heritage contexts, researchers and artists observe existing questions on the theme of agency negotiation, cultural resistance, and technical critique. This research interrogates power dynamics in human-AI sovereignty and entanglement for nomadic improvisational Dutar performance, a living cultural heritage through a long-necked lute from the Central Asia region. To investigate tensions between human agency and computational hegemony, the researcher and artists examined and iterated a feedback workflow that captures live performance data, processes digital transformations, and creates a real-time interactive art experience via immersive environments. Empirical data from artists and audience reveal modulations where musicians selectively embrace or reject algorithmic suggestions to preserve creative identity. The author concludes that decolonial potential requires redesigning tools or systems for cultural survivance, where technology becomes not merely a feedback environment but a site for decolonial praxis, challenging computational hegemony in digital ecosystems.
title When Strings Tug at Algorithm: Human-AI Sovereignty and Entanglement in Nomadic Improvisational Music Performance as a Decolonial Exploration
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19086