Anima™

  • Concert

  • Sat 11 June 2022,
    8:30 p.m.

  • Centre Pompidou, Grande salle
    Access plan


  • Duration: 90minutes (without interlude)
    Program (in French)

As part of "Berlin, nos années 20"

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
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Jonathan Shapiro
Ines Assoual, Si-Ying Fung, Stefanie Inhelder, Guy Marsan
dance
Thomas Goepfer IRCAM
computer music design
Dionysios Papanicolaou
IRCAM electronics
Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling
(Musical Representations team), Nicolas Obin, Axel Roebel, Léane Salais (Sound Analysis-Synthesis team) IRCAM-STMS scientific collaboration
Luca Bagnoli
IRCAM sound diffusion
Patricia Carolin Mai
choreography
Lucas Gutierrez
video design
Stefan Britze
set design
Felina Levits
costume design
Diego Muhr
lighting design
Lise Herdam
assistant choreography
Michael Brailey
assistant text

Online concert

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, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, from the ULYSSES network, supported by the European Union’s Europe Creative program, and the Goethe-Institut Paris

Anima™
© Lucas Gutierrez

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