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AI will eventually surpass the human brain but getting jokes ... that could take time. (Geoffrey Hinton)
Exploring A/I Artistic Intelligence
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method,
one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. (Donna Haraway)


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DRM368 Devising Theatre -Animating Bodies Fall 2022
Undergraduate Course
Instructor Prof. Antje Budde
Teaching Assistant Alisha Grech M.A. (doctoral student)
When 2-5pm, Tuesday. Sept.-Dec.2022
Where Luella Massey Studio Theatre
Department Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto
Note: All students signed a media waiver and have given permission to use course documentation on this website.
Experiments
Chairs/Neutral mask
Projects



Photos: Antje Budde
Description
This course is concerned with one of the most ancient and most contemporary questions across performance cultures: how can we breathe life into something seemingly dead: an object – found or made, a written play character, a disengaged human body, a digital puppet, an avatar? How to create life and liveliness in mixed-media performance? Based on experimental methods of the Digital Dramaturgy Labsquared (DDL2) inspired by Brechtian praxis, East Asian theatre, indigenous creation stories and contemplating cutting-edge advances in technology, the arts&sciences, we will experiment with both the practical-artistic and conceptual-political question of animation, manipulation, mechanisms of power, magic and (losing) control. Students will work on solo, duo and group experiments.
Guest instructor: Dr. Michael Reinhart Sept.20, 2022
Photos: Antje Budde
Guest instructor: Candy Otsíkh:èta Blair Oct.11, 2022
The course is based on 5 stages of devising processes:
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Stage 1: Building community, building common ground
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Stage 2: Proto-typing, intention, experimentation
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Stage 3: Critical making, testing, reflecting
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Stage 4: Repetition, repetition, repetition
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Stage 5: Performing, performing, performing
We are open to experiments with possibilities and choices of animating relationships:
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Body-based storytelling
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Text-based storytelling
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Sound-based storytelling (singing, chanting, screaming, speaking, whispering)
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Visual storytelling (animation, imaging, QR codes, emoticon, hand drawings, space drawings)
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Audio story telling (voice to text, text to voice)
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Object-based storytelling
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Digital masks, physical masks
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AI-based image, text, sound making
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Object-animation (ppt, overhead projection, digital projection, stop-motion photography)
Key categories/terms
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Devising performance - Research creation
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Animation of stories, bodies, objects, ideas
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Creation/creativity/ world-building
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Performance/ Digital Performance
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Pleasure of Learning, everyday performance
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Praxis/ Critical Making
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Intelligence/ Artificial Intelligence AI/ Artistic Intelligence A/I