This area engages structured and freely improvised ensemble performance as the site of investigation. The research explores the myriad ways that non-human actors – both computational and biological – modulate experiences of gesture, intentionality, intersubjectivity and agency while shifting between perceived boundaries of instrument/performer/score/environment. The research examines new creative practices, and communities of practice that emerge from these contexts. Projects manifest as compositions, installations, performance pieces, workshops, critical scholarship, computational systems and qualitative studies.