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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)
Credit AI manipulations: Antje Budde and xxx data sets and labor of collectivity
Instructor Prof. Antje Budde
Teaching Assistant Hillary Sunberg
Spring 2024
When 3-6pm, Tuesday
Where Luella Massey Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris St.
Department Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto
Course Description Spring 2024
In this course we will be exploring Bertolt Brecht’s ideas about the apparatus (both technologically and socially), learning as creative and playful performance, and theatre as an investigative dramaturgical praxis for social change. His revolutionary concept of participatory and inter-media learning plays will serve as a model for collective creation.
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
Course objectives
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Introduce concept and praxis of collective performance creation
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Techniques of research-creation/dramaturgy and performance
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Introduce maker skills through experimentation
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Introduce de-colonizing perspectives of making/ world-building
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Facilitate public-facing creative research, proto-typing and performance development (NOTE: signing of media waiver will be required)