Anima™

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As part of "Berlin, nos années 20"

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Alexander Schubert one of today's leading young artists in Germany, is also one of the most adept at bringing technology to the stage. Schubert has incorporated advances in artificial intelligence, explored over the past eighteen months with researchers at IRCAM. Anima™, his multimedia theater, is the name of an institution where visitors come into contact with their past and probable future. The interpreters, "patients" of this institute, obey a scenario delivered in real time. Everything has been developed from the real data of the performers from the Decoder Ensemble, in a continuous process of transformation and alienation. The characteristic features of the emotion, the genre, the affects will be varied and will generate artificial avatars. Through AI neural networks, classes and groups of individuals with the same properties are extracted to produce new entries: atypical, unexpected, fascinating results. Anima™ is not just another survivalist fiction: it is about thinking of technology as the ultimate tool for introspection, rich with a thousand possibilities and a thousand dangers. Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition - Premiere 2022 Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou Patricia Carolin Mai choreography Alexander Giesche outside eye Lucas Gutierrez video Stefan Britze set design Felina Levits costumes Diego Muhr lighting Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou IRCAM electronics Luca Bagnoli sound diffusion Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling IRCAM-STMS scientific collaboration (Musical Representations team – ACIDS) Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung actors Decoder Ensemble Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro

Alexander Schubert one of today's leading young artists in Germany, is also one of the most adept at bringing technology to the stage. Schubert has incorporated advances in artificial intelligence, explored over the past eighteen months with researchers at IRCAM. Anima™, his multimedia theater, is the name of an institution where visitors come into contact with their past and probable future. The interpreters, "patients" of this institute, obey a scenario delivered in real time. Everything has been developed from the real data of the performers from the Decoder Ensemble, in a continuous process of transformation and alienation. The characteristic features of the emotion, the genre, the affects will be varied and will generate artificial avatars. Through AI neural networks, classes and groups of individuals with the same properties are extracted to produce new entries: atypical, unexpected, fascinating results.

Anima™ is not just another survivalist fiction: it is about thinking of technology as the ultimate tool for introspection, rich with a thousand possibilities and a thousand dangers.

Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition - Premiere 2022
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Patricia Carolin Mai choreography
Alexander Giesche outside eye
Lucas Gutierrez video
Stefan Britze set design
Felina Levits costumes
Diego Muhr lighting
Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli sound diffusion
Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling IRCAM-STMS scientific collaboration (Musical Representations team – ACIDS)
Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung actors
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro

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A Decoder Ensemble production. Coproduction IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Kampnagel Hamburg, Kunstfest Weimar, Lichthof Theatre, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Hamburg. With the support of Darstellende Künste funded by the federal commission for culture and media and the Culture and Medias Ministry Hamburg, Elbkulturfonds, Impuls Neue Musik, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, from the ULYSSES network, supported by the European Union’s Europe Creative program, and the Goethe-Institut Paris