1st Edition
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI
This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.
This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal boundaries, wars, and pandemics, through artistic deviations carried out by machines and through the Extended Reality. Through the lens of anthropology and aesthetics, this study selects useful case studies to demonstrate this phenomenon of performative symphonises. In which the experimentation of AI-driven creativity and the new interaction HRI leads to philosophical inquiries about the nature of creativity, intelligence, and the definition of art itself. These shifts in paradigms invite us to reconsider established concepts and explore new perspectives on the relationship between technology, art, and the human experience.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, anthropology, and digital humanities.
Introduction
1. Anthropological and performative paradoxes on the contemporary stage
1.1 Deconstructing the Human: an Artistic Paradox
1.2. AI-Driven Performance Inspired by Human
1.3. Collaborative Creativity in the Digital Age: Exploring AI as a Co-Author
2. Performative Migrations: Between Dissolution and Metamorphosis
2.1. Redefining Performance in Virtual Reality
2.2. Living (in) Another’s Body
2.3. Digital Puppeteering: The Transformation of the Human Body Through Emerging Technologies
3. Artistic Experimentation and the Role of Performing Robots
3.1. Machines “like” me: Rimini Protokoll’s Uncanny Valley
3.2. Exploring Human-Robot Interactions through Dance
3.3. The Harmonious Dialogue Between Man and Machine: The Pas de Deux of Huang Yi & Kuka
4. Developing a new kind of theater
4.1. Performative Deviations: Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Art
4.2. Space, Time, and Reality
4.3. Traditional and New Trajectories in Theatrical Anthropology
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ester Fuoco has a PhD in Digital Humanities and in Histoire et Sémiologie du Texte et de l’Image.
