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The Shape of Things to Come
Replica Institute
Artistic direction: Diana Serbanescu (Neranti)
Lead researcher: Wenzel Mehnert
Producer: Regis Lemberthe
Research fellows: Joanna Chicau, Kate Ryan
Fellow researchers: Yidi Tsao, Dimitri Cacouris
Creative technologists: Meredith Thomas, Gilbert Sinott
Wearable designer: Mika Satomi
Wearables assistants: Erica Körner, Vera Castelijns
Theatre pedagogues: Matej Matejka, Ditte Berkeley, Ilona Krawzczyk
Performers: Gabriel Rodriguez Almagro, Dimitri Cacouris, Joana Chicau, Jie Liang Lin, Wenzel Mehnert, Diana Neranti, Saraï Merodio O'gara, Kate Ryan, Luke Swenson, Hans Peter Mattias Tommila
A practice-led research project that explored the intersection of science and performing arts, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, embodied cognition and speculative design. 'The Shape of Things to Come' was set up as a platform to investigate the value of performing arts in the frame of scientific inquiry. Its original hypothesis: that theatre techniques have the potential to inform the development of new technologies in relation to embodied cognition; to imagine future designs for human-machine interaction, and to rehearse future societies.
'The Shape of Things to Come' was a partnership between Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and REPLICA.
It was funded by a planning grant from VolkswagenStiftung as part of the track ‘AI & the Society of the Future’.
