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Channelers is a mystical, Artificial Intelligence-driven performance. The piece is modeled as a hybrid post-show Q&A session/oracular divination ritual and set to a synthpop soundtrack.  All spoken language and lyrics are generated by our bespoke-trained A.I. chatbot personae- and real children. Chatbots are trained on the language of young children,elders and mystics channeling from the linguistic cosmos and the margins. Audience members converse in real-time with our A.I. chatbots, as channeled by our performers via in-ear receivers. A hyper-transactional Q&A gradually gives way to penetrating contemplation and critique about the nature of our bodily, emotional, and ecological autonomy.

An initial production residency and work-in-progress performance was staged at Hamilton College.  Future iterations are in the process of becoming...

Production Credits
Conceived and Co-Created by Anna Huff// Anna Oxygen
Co-Creator/Performer/Designer-Jeff Larson
Directed by Chi-wang Yang
Lighting Design by Duncan Davies
Sound Design by Anthony Christiana
AI programming: Ekaterina Boderenko





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