manτεία (meaning prophecy or divination) is a new performance written and produced by Roberto Alonso Trillo and Peter Nelson that examines how ancient practices of geomancy and divination relate to our desire to find meaning in AI. In the ancient world, oracular figures would function as vessels for communicating the will of the divine. By recasting a performance built on AI tools as an act of divination, manτεία suggests that our current relationship with AI is evolving in a similar direction. When faced with a system that can synthesize more information than any living human, we find ourselves consulting systems that we are alienated from (the black box problem), and trusting in rationales whose reasoning we might never truly understand. manτεία returns us to the ancient quest to communicate with the transcendent, by looking for messages in clouds and melodies in noise and meaning in the immensity of large language models.
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📅Sun, 22 Dec, 2024
🕞15:30-16:30/19:30-20:30
📍The Box, Freespace, WestK
🎟️HK$300 (Standard) HK$200 (Concession)
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Organized by
MBow Limited
Artistic Directors
Roberto Alonso Trillo
Peter A C Nelson
Participating Artists
Taurin Barrera
Joseph Chan
Lazarus Chan Long Fung
Vvzela Kook
Samuel Swope
Davor Vincze
Karen Yu
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Performers
Ching Chu
Keung Hoi-Ling
Producer
Jiafan Weng
Light Designer
Rachel Ip Chun-Lam
Sound Designer
Allison Fong Tsz-Ching
Stage Manager
Vivia Ho
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This Project is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.