Interrobang
Commune AI
Part of “Who Owns the World?”
What is it like to live in a collective with artificial intelligence? This online performance lets the audience create a commune in the digital realm, inhabiting a specially developed virtual platform for 75 minutes-duration. In this HAU co-production, Interrobang – known for its participatory approaches that playfully explore digital technology in theatre – are testing the potentials of cohabitation and experimenting with hybrid forms of community. The human participants can express political goals, hopes, and expectations of communal life as the AI makes suggestions on how to implement them. How does the AI deal with typical communal conflicts about distribution of funds, cleaning schedules, ownership, power issues, and jealousy? How can the profit-oriented and often discriminatory structures of AI be made transparent and rectified? While the audience explores these questions, Friedrich Greiling from the Berlin synth-pop duo Mittekill will provide the sound for their temporary home, which can be entered with any web browser.
Note:
For the online performance “Commune AI”, a laptop or desktop computer is required (participation via smartphone or tablet is not possible) as well as a stable internet connection. Participation takes place via the web address (URL) on your ticket. Please register there: from 28 October until 10 minutes before the start of the online performance at the latest.
Further recommendations: Go to a quiet place for the duration of the performance (approx. 75 minutes) and use headphones. Use the Chrome or Firefox browser. Close all other applications and browser tabs for the duration of the performance. If you need technical assistance, please use this Zoom Chat, which opens one hour before the performance starts: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93878501309?pwd=c2FYeENFNUg0d0NkekdoOFhLeHY1dz09
Date
- Wed 1.11.2023, 20:00HAU4
- Fri 3.11.2023, 18:00HAU4
- Fri 3.11.2023, 21:00HAU4
- Sat 4.11.2023, 18:00HAU4
- Sat 4.11.2023, 21:00HAU4
- Sun 5.11.2023, 18:00HAU4
- Sun 5.11.2023, 21:00HAU4
Cast
Concept: Interrobang / By and with: Selma Böhmelmann, Julia Espindola, Florian Fischer, Lisa Großmann, Christiane Kühl, Till Müller-Klug, Nina Tecklenburg / Creative Coding: Florian Fischer, Manus Nijhoff / Music: Friedrich Greiling / Graphics, Animation: Jürgen Fehrmann, Julia Elger / Production management: ehrliche arbeit, Sandra Klöss / Public Relations: Tina Ebert / Social Media: Selma Böhmelmann
Credits
Production: Interrobang. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, ARGEkultur Salzburg, Kleintheater Luzern, Theater am Werk Wien. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.