Performance and New Technologies
VENUE: Oculus, 1.02
Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance
Working Group Session 1
Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00
Performing in Postdigital Sites
Chair: Joseph Dunne-Howrie
Emma Dorfman Introducing Digitally Site-Specific Theatre.
Vlad Butucea & Bianca Mastrominico Dream AI Open Lab: Immersive AI-Generated Storytelling to Enhance Well-being.
Maria Chatzichristodoulou Introduction to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) and to the WG Affiliated Issue 2027.
Working Group Session 2
Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30
New Kinds of Human
Chair: Joseph Dunne Howrie / Bianca Mastrominico
Natasha Stott The Performance Projection Paradigm: An exploration of a dialogue between the moving body and projected image, through improvisation.
Alicia Corts Shifting Virtuality: Apology Station, AI, and the Limits of Virtual Performance.
L. Nicol Cabe Artificial and Biological Characters in Contrast.
Working Group Session 3
Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00
Postdigital Childhood and Adolescence
Chair: Joseph Dunne Howrie / Bianca Mastrominico
Kadriye Bozkurt  Incomplete Families, Fragmented Childhoods and Hopes for the Future in Theatre.
Kimberley McLeod Call Your AI Girlfriend: Experiments in Postdigital, Feminist Performance with Chatbots.
Adelina Ong AI Baby Yoda Care x Research (A Way, This Is).
Working Group Session 4
Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00
Virtual Revolutions
Chair: Joseph Dunne Howrie / Bianca Mastrominico
Zhiling Guo Utopias, Heterotopias, and The Fragmented Self-presentation of Deaf Creators on Chinese UGC Platforms.
Natalie Diddams Performing in the Grey-zone: Audience Entanglement and Digital Liminality in The Believers Are But Brothers.
Zhi Xu The River of No-One: Telematic Choreography and Postdigital Performance.