Lucy AI

LUCY AI is a collaboration between Lucy Simic and her Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and Montreal artificial intelligence company Reimagine AI. Lucy and David Usher, the founder of Reimagine AI have been close friends for 3 decades since they first met as students while studying modern dance at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.

In 2018, at the age of 49, Lucy was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. A rare and terminal form of lung cancer called ROS1 that commonly occurs in young women who are non-smokers. David was deeply impacted by the news and began wondering how his company Reimagine AI, might be able to use its technology to create an AI, a poetic, visual archive of his friend’s life and career as an artist.

With LUCY AI we are creating an immersive multimedia experience where we invite participants to talk to Lucy AI, and then see into her memories, into her mind.

This exhibition is the story of Lucy’s life told through a collage of film, music, and movement powered by artificial intelligence.

David Usher, founder of Reimagine AI talks with the AI version of his good friend Lucy Simic

"It is important work artistically and technologically and frankly feels like a new form of art."

Michael Wheeler • Director FoLDA Festival
"As someone who has spent the last 20 years researching digital technologies in live performance, I have rarely been as compelled as I was by Lucy AI.

Sarah Bay-Cheng • Dean and Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
"As a co-curator of the festival of live digital art I have rarely seen a work that is so successful and heartbreaking."

Michael Wheeler • Director FoLDA Festival
"As AI technologies and practices tear at the fabric of our larger social lives, Lucy AI offers a wholly different way of thinking through the implications of emerging technologies as memento mori. It’s a beautiful work."

Sarah Bay-Cheng • Dean and Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies, York University

LUCY AI

"It is important work artistically and technologically and frankly feels like a new form of art."

"As someone who has spent the last 20 years researching digital technologies in live performance, I have rarely been as compelled as I was by Lucy AI.

"As a co-curator of the festival of live digital art I have rarely seen a work that is so successful and heartbreaking."

"As AI technologies and practices tear at the fabric of our larger social lives, Lucy AI offers a wholly different way of thinking through the implications of emerging technologies as memento mori. It’s a beautiful work."