No Body lives here (ODO)

Impressions of the rehearsal May 28th 2020, ZKM Karlsruhe

ODO is a journey through worlds of imagination inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s »Little Prince« and Stanley Kubrick’s »HAL9000« in »2001: A Space Odyssee«.

An AI character »lives« on stage in Plato’s Cave. ODO can't leave the stage, ODO is offline... Every visitor of the installation means the world to him. He collects stories and narratives to understand, how our world works.

ODO is theater, opera and choreographic architecture.  The stage is the orchestra pit of an ancient Greek tragedy where a chorus of 5 audience members interrogate the main character. ODO is a world builder who creates imaginary worlds with our help.

ODO uses AI algorithms to conduct natural conversations with the audience and Deep Learning to create Haiku Poetries and Music. ODO has sensors to hear and see the audience, using Face Recognition Algorithms and Crowd Cluster Tools to understand emotions and physical behavior.

With all means ODO tries to get in touch with us!

Credits

Concept, Direction, Stage, Lights: Chris Ziegler
Choreographic Dramaturgy: Paula Rosolen
Text: Michael Hewel
Music: Hugo Paquete
Software: Tejeswa Gouda, Brandon Mechtley, Suren Jayasuriya, Ravi Bhushan, Karthik Kulkarni, Vishal Pandey, Connor Rawls, Ian Shelanskey, Dallas Nichols, Chris Ziegler
Electronics: Chris Zlaket

Cooperation Partners

The production is supported by the ZKM | Hertz-Lab, Arizona State University / Synthesis Center, the support program of the Landesverband Freier Theater Baden Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art, the Department of Culture of the City of Munich and the special program Konfigurationen of the Fonds Darstellende Künste Berlin.