Interactive Media & Language Performance

Join the TU Delft Library and visiting researchers from America for a free and open concert harnessing user mobile technology. The performance includes a preview of their new AI performance: ‘The Pen Test’

It wants to get to know you — your favourite words and dreams. It separates you from the crowd, finds out what makes you unique. Courts you, that funny, awkward, chatty phase. Thinks it knows you, predicting your next move. Then it starts telling you what to do… Now it has demands. It needs constant input and validation. It wants to know where this is going. If it’s not headed to the next level, maybe it’s collapsing. Maybe it needs to end or you need to end this.

For this part experiment, part performance, part collaborative poem, we will combine interactive technology, large language models, and mobile devices to test the hold words and algorithms have on us as humans. Audience participation is required.