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Labyss
The Algoritmic Theatre
How is your memory these days?
Hard to remember appointments and phone numbers?
You’re not alone. Our use of digital devices affects the memory of everyone. What’s more: We start to forget our deeper memories, the memories that formed us. The first time you rode a bike. Or when you blew your first birthday candle. Millions of people around the globe suffer from what scientists call ‘digital amnesia’. This is a condition that is spreading, making it harder for more people to remember the important moments of their lives.
This is why we have created Labyss, a Danish tech start up. By using the latest technology, we can store and revive your lost memories.
Title
Labyss
Concept by
The Algoritmic Theatre
Excutive producer
Toaster
Premiere
March 24th 2023
Language
Currently available in English, Danish and Cantonese. Possible to produce in other languages with further development.
Prize
17500 Euro
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
You have just stepped into the performative installation, Labyss, and are welcomed by a Labyss partner. She is friendly and energetic. As you agree to help Labyss in their quest to save the population’s memories, you soon find yourself in front of an artificial intelligence. The AI asks you questions about your past, and you begin to tell your memories. At first, you are uneasy about sharing such intimate details with a machine, but soon you find that telling your story to someone who listens makes you feel very good. Even though this someone is not human.
In Labyss, the audience is let through a process of recalling, while consenting to become ever more intimate with the software and the company. But what kind of company is this? The audience will fill out questionnaires, watch commercials, be interviewed by an AI, see testimonials from previous customers in Labyss. They will be asked to meditate, share who they are and in the end, they will see their memories as part of the cloud in a spectacular, AI generated stream of memories.
ABOUT THE ALGORITMIC THEATRE
Labyss is created by The Algorithmic Theatre, an inter-disciplinairy artistic research collective exploring how algorithmic technologies and the rise of artificial intelligence affect and shape our lives.
Labyss combines humour and critical thinking in a both ironic and reflective way. We seek to give our audience a direct experience of the tech world’s darkest and strangest habits – such as its habit of creating problems and then seeking to solve these problems using the same technologies and methods, thus creating new problems over and over again. Thereby, we are posing a dilemma for the audience: Will we keep using the very technology that is stealing our data in order to save
ourselves, or are there other ways to meet the future?
Kristian Husted, Text and Direction
Kristian is an author and stage director who works in the cross section of research-based art, activism and documentary fiction. His upcoming novel, My Ukrainian Friend, to be published in Danish later this summer, is a personal story about his friend Ivan who died fighting in the current war in Ukraine.
Kristian Byskov, Text and Direction
Kristian is a visual artist and author, working within stage arts and critical pedagogy. His work is research based with a strong focus on process and collaboration. Currently, Kristian is a PhD candidate at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (Norway) with the project Other Worlds From Here: Seeking to make ways to connect critical science fiction imaginary and storytelling to places affected by ecocide, extraction and land struggle.
Pernille Kragh, Dramaturg
Pernille is a dramaturg, translator and producer educated from the University of Copenhagen. She has worked with classical theatre on award winning theatre productions in Denmark and abroad, as well as with performance art, interdisciplinary art projects and artistic research. Her work is centered around sound, language and text and she combined the two when creating the first festival for audio drama in Denmark.
Tina Ryoon Andersen, Curator of public events
Tina is a curator with an interest in facilitating transdisciplinary collaborations and discursive programs at the cross section of art, technology and society. She is interested in engaging the public in conversations on technology’s influence on society. She also works as Program Manager at IDA – the Danish Society for Engineers, where she currently develops diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. She also works as a consultant for Kulturværftet as part of the EU Digital Deal project.
Contact
THE ALGORITHMIC THEATRE (TAT)
Pernille Kragh (artistic producer/dramaturg)
kraghetaer@gmail.com
+45 26 13 53 02
Kristian Husted (writer/co-director)
kristian.husted@gmail.com
+45 51 34 13 83
TOASTER
Miriam@toastercph.dk
+45 21 86 51 84
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