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Plagiary 

Alisdair Macindoe

Ten dancers follow live instructions from an AI-choreographer. Who is prompting who? Plagiary is everything we’ve come to know (and love?) about AI: unpredictable, glitchy, occassionally beautiful, clunkily hilarious, and unique every time. 

Entrance
€ 19,-
Duration
60 minutes
Language
English spoken and subtitled
Location
Grand Theatre
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A compelling provocation in the face of a technological apocalypse

When AI seems to make succesfull medical diagnoses, creates believable deepfakes of famous politicians and easily composes pop-songs in the style of your favorite artist, surely it can be a contemporary choreographer? 

In Plagiary, ten local dancers are manipulated in real-time by an artificial intelligence choreographer, with instructions delivered through earpieces. Every performance is unique: with language prompts taken from a different hero of the international dance-canon each time. The AI's prompts, ranging from accidentally poetic to absurdly clunky, push the dancers to a scarily coherent and fascinating comment on our times.
Australian choreographer and dance technologist Alisdair Macindoe spent over 7 years developing an AI-language model that questions, resists and embraces our cybernetic symbiosis with our future technologies. 

Despite using technology as a linchpin, Plagiary showed that humans can respond creatively to AI, but that AI can’t yet replace human creativity.

Dates

Ticket sales start at June 2nd at 12.00 noon

Thursday 14 August

Available times

21:00

Friday 15 August

Available times

18:00 21:30

Saturday 16 August

Available times

18:00 21:30

About the artist

Alisdair Macindoe is an award-winning and one of Australia's leading multidisciplinary choreographers whose creative practice encompasses dance, sound and technology. Interested in pushing the boundaries of choreographic practice, Macindoe's work explores automated dance and artificial intelligence, new technology for musical expression, transhumanism, waste and climate change, death and identity in the age of narcissism.