[Capdist-announce] Annie Dorsen: Hello Hi There | Sat. 02/18, 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

[jason steven murphy]

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/dorsen
http://www.facebook.com/events/181883528583598/
PERFORMANCE 
Annie Dorsen: Hello Hi There 
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 8 PM 
Studio 1 – Goodman 
$18 (discounted tickets available)



What happens when you place two chatbot programs in conversation? What might they have to say about age-old philosophical questions? In Hello Hi There, Obie Award-winning director and writer Annie Dorsen poses these questions by staging two chatbots as live performers, reflecting on the issues of language, creativity, and political power raised in an infamous television debate between philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist Noam Chomsky in 1971. Each conversation between the chatbots forges a unique path, resulting in an unexpected and humorous meditation on what separates humans from machines.

Obie Award-winning director and writer Annie Dorsen works in theater, film, dance, and digital performance. She is co-creator and director of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange, which Spike Lee subsequently made into a film. In 2010, she collaborated with choreographer Anne Juren on Magical and with Juren and DD Dorvillier on Pièce Sans Paroles. In 2009, she created two music theater pieces, Ask Your Mama and ETHEL’s TruckStop. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Evelyn’s Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines - service continues after the performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, research, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921
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