Chatbot Challenge
KI-Collage: Alexandre Silveira
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Chatbots are theatrical machines: they engage in lively dialogues, take on roles, and express and evoke emotions.
In CHATBOT CHALLENGE, two performers and a creative coder share the stage with chatbots and other AI systems. They explore the question: How much theater is in AI, and how much AI-theater have we already internalized? Starting from the core situation of theater – a live performance in front of an audience – the piece becomes an intimate encounter with global AI systems, their potential, and their strategies of deception. What happens when AI systems gain access to video, sound, stage, lighting, the bodies of the performers, and the reactions of the audience? Are chatbots the better performers? And how much work goes into their roles?
CHATBOT CHALLENGE explores the big societal questions and challenges brought about by the current rise of AI. It looks into the underlying systems that create AI, questioning how the profit-driven and often biased structures can be changed. How can we reveal and address the biases in AI systems? And how can AIs themselves contribute to answering these questions?
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Credits
Concept: Interrobang Play Devising: Christiane Kühl, Till Müller-Klug, Nina Tecklenburg and Team Performance: Christiane Kühl, Nina Tecklenburg, Artificial Intelligences Dramaturgy: Lea Goebel, Anna Krauß Collaboration Dramaturgy: Lara Domke Creative Coding: Manus Nijhoff, Florian Fischer Stage and Video: Theresa Reiwer Video: Alexandre Silveira Costume: Birke van Maartens Music: Friedrich Greiling Graphics: Jürgen Fehrmann, Julia Elger Technical Direction & Lighting Design: Dirk Lutz Production Management: ehrliche arbeit, Sandra Klöss Head of Communication: Alexandra Lauck Social Media: Selma Böhmelmann Public Relations: Tina Ebert.
Production: Interrobang. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Schlachthaus Theater Bern. Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt und durch Mittel des Hauptstadtkulturfonds.