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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)
GROUP projects - DRM368 Devising Theatre -Animating Bodies Fall 2022
Undergraduate Course
Instructor: Prof. Antje Budde
Nov.25, 2022
Themes: (taken from individual student project notes)
physicality, devising with objects, power negotiation/inequality and the cultural industry, interfacing with music, cultural identity and hair, improvisation, memory loss, communication and health care, animating the dead, Halloween, memory making, animating personal objects, found materials, game-based performance (rules), food making, human puppets
Time limit for performances including setup and strike: 20 min.
Space: Luella Massey Studio Theatre – main and stage space; workshop space
Discussion: after each set of performances as time permits
NOTE: All performances will be video recorded by Antje Budde.
Task:
Take devising to yet another level and now co-create with another students a live, or mixed-media or screened duo project of no more than 20 minutes (inclusive setup, performance, strike) within the course framework of animating bodies.



Photos and videos: Antje Budde
PROGRAM:
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Group 1: Bodies Animate. By Rafina Chowdhury, John Cleave, Don (Tin Yui) Ku, Ohryong (Olivia) Kwon - live - main space, on and off stage area
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Group 2: Dance, Puppet, Dance! By Sina Sasanifard, Ethan Verderber, Yinan (Reece) Zhou - live/main space - participatory
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Group 3: We Are One. By Maria-Fedra Archimandriti, Hannah deVellis, Selina Jia, Gabriel Naidoo - dance video
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Group 4: The Sandmen. By Simon Adams, Teodora Djuric, Molly Dunnlive - live/ main space