UC Alumni Salon Talk with Professor Pia Kleber - Performing the Digital: AI and Theatre
Event Details
Date: Thursday January 23rd, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: East Common Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
This presentation will focus on the results of various collaborative performance projects: scenes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and other plays incorporating the production aspect of rain and related weather conditions on stage.The presented scenes are the outcome of interdisciplinary graduate courses exploring the collision of the arts and emerging technologies. These courses bring together scientists, scholars, artists and students from Drama/Theatre, Visual Studies, Music, Comp. Literature, Engineering and Computer Science and are part of the newly established BMO Lab for Creative Research in AI, the Arts and Performance.