The future of the theater or a reinvention of art

Authors

  • Paulo Alexandre e Castro Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos da Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37334/eras.v10i4.41

Keywords:

Theater, Art, Artificial intelligence, Humanity, Singularity

Abstract

Knowing what the future may bring about unexpected social, political and economic changes, due to the rapid technological and concrete development in the area of artificial intelligence, he is a believer that the arts can suffer an impact as well. Bearing in mind these premises for those presented in this article, from a dystopian scenario (or because it does not show a scenario similar to "singularity" as the one proposed by Raymond Kurzweil), a possibility of theater to suffer a deep interruption not only in modes of presentation and the means used, but also from the point of view of (hypothetical) audiences in this art. In this accompaniment, the role that humans and androids use, or geminids (to use the name of Hiroshi Ishiguro), or even other forms of "life" (artificial?), Which are not yet possible, those that are considered as the very art paper and their respective descriptors.

Published

2019-12-30