I WANT AN AI FOR PRESIDENT: experimental LARP / immersive theater

computationally generated line drawing of an ai president
August 22nd, 2024 | 19:30-21:00 | Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan Street
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Organized as part of Co-prosperity Sphere and Public Media Institute’s counter DNC programming DEMOCRAZY.

Please join us for a playtest of a new interactive performance “I WANT AN AI 4 PRESIDENT” developed by Garrett Laroy Johnson and Kristin McWharter. This live action role play style performance dives into the complexities of workplace leadership models and the evolving anxieties surrounding computer intelligence and the automation of labor. We hope you will join us for this intimate experience designed for small audiences.

Registration

Registration spots are extremely limited. Please complete the form below by 2/14/24 to be added to the waitlist. If there is a spot available, we will reach out via email to confirm. Please register only if you are sure you will be able to attend. If something comes up, please inform organizers so we can open the spot to another registrant.

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Kristin McWharter

'Kristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Inspired by sports narratives and strategies for collective decision making, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer's relationships to affection and competitive drive.'

Garrett Laroy Johnson

Garrett Laroy Johnson is a Chicago-based sound and media artist, researcher, and theorist. His transdisciplinary work engages Guattarian process theory, politics and the production of subjectivity, computation and materialism, and post-psychoanalysis.

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