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Is it a doll or a human? The creature sits on the stage in after-work clothes, looks at its hands and occasionally moves its arms. On the screen is a photo of a student, presumably the younger version of the stage character. Director and author Stefan Kaegi designed this android performance entitled “Uncanny Valley” – which in technical jargon means as much as oppressive similarities between man and machine. At the Ars Electronica Festival, this Rimini Protocol production, which premiered in the Munich Kammerspiele, can be experienced daily from September 6 to 10 in the “Circus of Knowledge” at the Johannes Kepler University.
The figure of writer Thomas Melle was modeled from motors and silicone. “Are the copies and the originals in competition with each other or do they help each other?” asks Kaegi, who created a projection screen for the future with this hour-long production, in which the human original will hardly be discernible.
In addition, the JKU “circus” is offering Andreas Pfaffenberger’s “KI – Kasperl interveniert” at the festival, an anarchic puppet show for adults with puppet intelligence.
- Info: jku.at/news-events/ detail/news/zirkus-des-wissens
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