For the theater director Susanne Kennedy, who works in Berlin, the technology of virtual reality (VR) enables people to become aware of their real life anew. “It is a technology that shows us how we interact with reality, our normal life,” she said on Saturday evening (local time) at an online artist talk on the occasion of the digital world premiere of her new theater production “I AM (VR)” in the theater Commons in Tokyo.
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The German theater director Susanne Kennedy.
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“It is a tool that lets us see what reality actually is,” said Kennedy, who created the work at the suggestion of the theater with Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker. “I AM (VR)” was developed with VR technology and can only be experienced in virtual space. For this purpose, eight rooms with black screens were created in the hall of the Goethe-Institut in Japan’s capital, in each of which a visitor with a VR headset went on a virtual journey in search of an oracle. Just as the Greeks once visited the temple of Delphi in antiquity to be prophesied of their fate.
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“I AM (VR) is a journey that takes you to a place that is hidden within you,” said Kennedy. «A kind of online dreaming in which you are a wandering mind without a body. It is a dynamic inner simulation in which you are observer and observed at the same time. ”
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Peter Anders, director of the Goethe Institute in Tokyo, was enthusiastic about the feeling that he was on a “ghost train into a totally new universe”. Especially in times of the Corona, when people long for something creative, this is an “overwhelming” experience.
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After Japan, “I AM (VR)” will first be shown in Vienna in June, explained Kennedy. Later the plant went to Berlin, Munich and other German cities, possibly Hamburg and Frankfurt. In a next step, the theater director also wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the work. The aim is to enable interactive communication with the oracle. To this end, you will work with a team of AI developers, said the artist.
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Source: dpa
| Updated: Saturday, February 20, 2021 2:57 p.m.
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