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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)
Thursday, March 3, 2022. 4.30pm-6pm ET
From our Zoom space directly live-streamed on YouTube
Facebook event details TBA
YouTube Livestream https://youtu.be/AGGbbI4yw6c
Credit: Screenshot from CO|R|PO video with permission of Taanteatro
Taanteatro on Vimeo
Guests:
Maura Baiocchi - Choreographer and dancer. Sao Paolo
Wolfgang Pannek - Artistic director. Sao Paolo.
Taanteatro on YouTube
Project Description
Taanteatro Companhia is celebrating its 30th anniversary. They have recently published a book entitled Choreographic Theatre of Tensions about their legacy and are currently organizing their Ecoperformance festival 2022.
We are curious to learn more about their work, how their artistic concepts and praxis evolved and where they want to go next. In particular we are interested in connections between human movement and non-human movement (nature and artificial machines), how they do the labor of learning resiliency, playfulness and courage and how they are moving to move (with) us. We are also curious about aesthetic politics of laughter and critique.
Program:
1. Land acknowledgement
2. Introductions
3. Mini lecture (approx.15-20 min) by Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Panneck
4. Guiding questions
5. Conversation
Moderators:
Antje Budde - Digital dramaturg and artistic research director of DDL2. Toronto.
Susan Lee - Choreographer and Dancer, York U. Toronto.
Don Sinclair - Computational scholar-artist, York U. and DDL2. Toronto.
Panelists:
Candy (Otsíkh:èta) Blair - Interdisciplinary Artist. Tkaronto
Mark Chignell - Director of the Interactive Media Lab, U of T. Toronto
Ilja Mirsky - (Digital) Dramaturg and scholar on human-ai interactions. Zurich, Tübingen.
Yizhou Zhang - Experimental theatre maker and doctoral student, U of T. Toronto
Reece Caldwell, Representative York Dance Ensemble, York University, Toronto
A collaboration between
Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared
Organized and funded jointly by AMPD at York University as well as DDL2 and Interactive Media Lab's current research project PLAYStrong – Promoting Student Resilience through Interactive Prototypes for Embodied Self-learning. (supported by the XSeed research initiative, Department of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto)