About this Event
Stones, Axioms, and Poems: A Human-Machine Performance
Join us for an immersive, experimental evening where human artistry and machine intelligence collide to explore the boundaries of language, ritual, and performance.
"Stones, Axioms, and Poems" is part of an ongoing exploration of making kin with other forms of existence across the margins of language and meaning. Developed at the Human-Machine Improvisation Lab within the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington, Seattle, our methodology constructs the performative stage as a laboratory where human and non-human create a unique language that emerges from the gaps of translations, imagination, ritual, and symbiotic experimentation.
Through this live dialogue of translation and mis-translation, human and machine performers search for a way to narrate the world together, forging a shared experience that is an endless becoming, a question inhabited and unraveled live on stage.
Date and Time: Saturday, June 6, 2026 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Location: THE BLANC, 15 E 40th Street, 12F, New York, NY 10016
Creative Team and Credits
Written and Directed by: Laura Luna Castillo and Cristina Brambila
Dramaturgy by: Ify Onyekonwu
Performed by: Ify Onyekonwu and Agatha Rodriguez
Sound Design: Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera
Machine Learning System: Built by Rose Ziyu Xu and Zhuodi Cai (Live activation by Rose Ziyu Xu)
Visuals and Live Textual Processing by: Laura Luna Castillo
Associate Producer: Yuhanxiao Maggie Ma
Support and Sponsors
Developed with support of DXARTS, the Imaginative Project Award, and THE BLANC.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
15 E 40th St #12f, 15 East 40th Street, New York, United States
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