Course description:

This course will introduce approaches to a praxis (applied theory, critical making) of digital dramaturgy where process (dramaturgy as a conceptual and technical instrument) will be central rather than product (dramaturgy as a tool). The methodological approach is inspired by ideas of experiential learning and experimental performance, thus making connections between the humanities, the sciences and social sciences. Digital Dramaturgy in this context is understood as a critical instrument of imagining, making and questioning inter-medial connections between material and immaterial bodies, analogue and digital technologies in mediated performance space-times. Students will be required to design and perform projects based on rigorous experimental methods. The thematic focus will provocatively investigate ideas of artistic intelligence (A/I) in the context of current debates and technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Central to the dialectical debate will be questions about imaging technologies (i.e. MRI, facial recognition, sensory robotics) vs. imagining technologies (i.e. dreams, imagination, awe, storytelling, alternative realities/utopia/dystopia, critical doubt and laughter).

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This is a course of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared. https://www.ddlsquared.rocks/