Pedagogical Actions
Whorkshop
Theatrical Intelligence
WITH Stefan Kaegi
- March 9th, 10th and 11th, Monday to Wednesday, 2pm to 5pm
- Casa do Povo
- Free | Registration via online form until 2/26
SYNOPSIS
Can theater be an open world, like certain virtual reality games? How can decision trees be scripted and performance made to respond to the digital? In fiction, AI appears as something alien, but it is a human invention. Since its origins, theater has anticipated emotions and sought to manipulate them—just like algorithms do. Technologies of illusion in theater predate computers. What is new in this relationship is how AI places spectators inside interactive scripts—supposedly tailored to highly individualized target groups. This workshop for artists, playwrights, directors, set designers, programmers, and creative artists investigates how low-tech algorithms can be scripted and transformed into simple games, audio tours, and other immersive performance formats.
BACKGROUND
Stefan Kaegi lives between the Swiss mountains and Berlin, creating documentary theater works and public space projects in a wide range of collaborative partnerships. He co-produces works with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel under the Rimini Protokoll label. Through research, public auditions, and conceptual processes, the group gives voice to “experts” who are not necessarily professionally trained actors.