Concept: Interrobang / Play development: Interrobang & Team / Performance: Lukas Jakob Huber, Claudia Splitt, Künstliche Intelligenzen / Dramaturgy: Anna Krauß, Lara Domke / Outside Eye: Nina Tecklenburg / Creative Coding & AI Video: Manus Nijhoff, Alexandre Silveira / Video documentation & trailer: Julia Elger / Equipment: Sandra Fox / Music: Friedrich Greiling / Graphic design: Jürgen Fehrmann / Technical direction & lighting design: Dirk Lutz / Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro, Sandra Klöss / Collaboration production: Lara Domke / Company management, communications & social media: Jack Willenbacher / Freelance communications & PR: Tina Ebert
Interrobang
AI Democracy
- Performance
German or English /
ca. 90 mins.
“AI Democracy” transforms the stage into a digital polis: political bots, deepfakes and AI election campaigns encounter ancient decision-making processes. Performers, audience and a creative coder come together in a live experiment about manipulation, participation and the future of democracy.
“AI DEMOCRACY” explores the tension between artificial intelligence and democratic processes. Political bots, deepfakes, AI election campaigns – as powerful tools of manipulation and propaganda, AIs seem omnipresent. But could it be different? Could AI also enable new forms of participation and decision-making? In its new performance, the Berlin-based group Interrobang draws on the roots of democracy: the Greek polis. Ancient procedures such as ostracism, lotocracy and direct voting are revived by AI systems and brought to the stage. There, two performers and a creative coder meet. The audience can help determine the political agenda of the evening by raising their hands, speaking up or using their smartphones. But are the decisions made with its help really well-founded and transparent? Where do we trust the seemingly neutral super-algorithms, where do we trust the human performers, and when do we trust ourselves as a collective? The audience, as a micro-society, explores and experiences AI politics in real time.
Cast
Dates
Current
Notes:
From 8 December at HAU4: “AI Demo,” the teaser tool for the stage performance “AI Democracy”
16.–18.12.: Performance in German
19.12.: Performance in English
Credits
Production: Interrobang. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
