Introduction to Drama and Artificial Intelligence

Antonio Pizzo, University of Turin, CIRMA

This round table has been designed to provide a broad approach to the use of digital technology in theatre and performing arts. The issue about the relation between theatre, performance and new media, has been arisen since the Eighties, when contemporary dance started to introduce robots and electronics on stage, or when fringe theatre investigates the relation between live event and TV camera and monitors.

Since then, much has been written about it, so that it is now possible to follow different approaches to the question.

Here the panellists will talk about different topics: new dance and new media, the theatre and virtual reality, the simulation of space and time in virtual representation, the interactive stage and costumes. All of these are topics that deserve a full length discussion, and certainly this is just a start, and I invite whoever is interested to come and join us at tomorrow morning workshop, at 11 am, here at Supreme Council for Culture, for further details.

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