Immersive piece for female voice, AI avatar-video, motion capture and live electronics
Javier Munoz Bravo: Composition, live electronics, artistic direction, dramaturgy and scenography
Stefanie Inhelder: Final staging and lights
Stella Speziali: AI avatar-video
Claire Trouilloud: Voice
System IMU sensors R-IoT Bitalino by Ircam and MoCap XSense – Movella by Immersive Arts Space ZHdK Zurich
Octophonic sound system
Duration: 1 hour
Language performance: Singer @French / AI @French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Indonesian
Subtitles: The piece will be played in French with English subtitles.
Premiere: 29 March 2024 at the Carène-Brest, during the Électrocution festival
Co-production
Cie glitch
Ensemble Sillages
Festival Électrocution – Brest, France
La Carène Brest
Le Quartz Brest
Partenaires
French Ministry of Culture
Copyright Society of France (SACEM)
Canton of Berne
Biel City -Switzerland
City of Brest
Immersive Arts Space ZHdK Zurich
“A Season in the Metaverse” plunges us into a future where artificial intelligence governs humanity. The latter, confined in the Metaverse, are no longer in physical contact, communicating and living exclusively through the screen.
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops and A Season in Hell, the play features Arthur Rimbaud trying to persuade the machine to let him enter the Metaverse, a place forbidden to poets and artists. Through the human voice interacting with AI, motion sensors and real-time electronics, this immersive and poetic experience highlights human singularity in the face of technological domination. A reflection on the complex relationship between humanity and technology, the piece explores themes of freedom, equality and migration. But the question remains: does humanity really have everything it needs to live happily within the Metaverse?
The current problem in France is the excessive computerization of public systems, which do not work, and immigration laws that are sometimes absurd, a situation that I myself live in France because I am from Chile.
