The Show Must go on/off line: Alghoritmic Theatrum Mundi
January 31, 2022
Alghoritmic Theatrum Mundi: Future of performance between pixels, algorithms and atoms?
What’s the future of the performing arts in the age of AI, algorithms and the metaverse? Can gen-uine human expression and agency survive? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new, post-human aesthetic? Will the gulf between online and offline, pixels and atoms, and artificial and real actors and audiences blur, or even disappear entirely? Will this convergence provoke and gener-ate unique artistic experiments beyond our wildest dreams? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new, post-human aesthetic? In this episode, we delve into these questions and many more, in the company of AI experts and theatre practitioners working with AI, robotics and generative technologies on stage.This episode is based on a discussion in the Show Must Go On/Offline series and features the following participants:
Guests:
David Košťak (CZ), playwright, translator and dramaturg
Ondřej Holba (CZ), director, lecturer, contact juggler and actor
Rudolf Rosa (CZ), robopsychologist, lecturer at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University
Jan Mocek (CZ), theatre maker, visual artist and member of IN SITU, a European platform for artistic creation in public space
Jan Tyl (CZ), AI expert, CEO Alpha Industries
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, digital being
Václav Havel, digital being
Moderator: Dita Malečková (CZ), lecture, researcher, writer, independent AI researcher
Links to projects, organisations and initiatives mentioned in this episode:
AI, When A Robot Writes a Play, Švanda Theatre: https://www.svandovodivadlo.cz/en/inscenations/673/ai-when-a-robot-writes-a-play
Who Is Useless Now?: http://whois.ondrejholba.cz/en/
Virtual Ritual: https://janmocek.org/virtualritual
Digital Writer, Czech Radio: https://www.czech.radio/artificial-intelligence-writes-stories-czech-radio-launch-digital-writer-project-8384063
