About this Event
STAGE READING, TALKBACK | Can a robot write a play that reflects the world in the times we live in? Find out at the stage reading of a play created fully by a computer. Follow the story of Ivan and Nina, husband and wife, whose lives will be deeply impacted by incoming war. Permeation is the second play generated by artificial intelligence—a mix of love tragedy, war drama, and espionage thriller.
Artists, scientists and university students in Prague joined their forces for the second time to explore creative collaboration between a man and artificial intelligence. The stage reading, presented at the 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival in world premiere, is outcome of two years of work on a unique project supported by The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR). At the start of this project there was a question whether AI can write a theater play. Using artificial intelligence during creative process and collaboration of a man and AI poses numerous unsettling questions beyond the field of art and invites for wider social debate.
Permeation, Czech Republic. Playwright: Artificial intelligence. Project author: Tomas Studenik. Director: Erwin Mass. Cast: TBA soon.
Free and open to the public. Online registration through Eventbrite is required. Wearing of a face mask inside the venue is required.
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The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Under Pressure is dedicated to the people of Ukraine fighting for their independence. ?? Suggested donation ($10) will be used to support Ukrainian refugees. All collected funds will be donated to People in Need, a Czech non-governmental, non-profit organization.
WHERE: Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street (between 2nd & 1st Aves), New York, NY 10021. Subway: Q line - 72nd Street, 6 line – 68th Street Hunter College or 77th Street
PARKING: Discounted parking of $30 for up to 10 hours for guests of Bohemian National Hall is available at GGMC Parking. Two parking entrances: 307 East 73rd Street and 300 East 74th Street. Present your parking ticket at BNH reception for a validation sticker.
ABOUT THE 2022 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL
The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Under Pressure is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, GOH Productions, Czech National Trust, Terezin Music Foundation, Trap Door Theatre, and Yara Arts Group.
The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary, and Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, United States
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