For the first annual exhibition of the Puppet Theatre Collection at its new location in Kraftwerk Mitte, the internationally renowned label Rimini Protokoll conceived, designed and realized an immersive and multimedia installation. The audience will pass through a course of several rooms and fall under the spell of an automated production in which puppet theater is understood as a metaphor for a digital world full of invisible threads.
Can puppets be understood as the direct predecessors of artificial intelligence? Where is the boundary between the visible strings of the primal avatar puppet and the algorithms of an automatic, perhaps even self-learning system? The myth of the autonomous puppet that rebels against its creator and player can be traced through the history of puppet theater. Empathy and mirror neurons have repeatedly emancipated puppets into independent identities in our perception. This movement continues seamlessly in the virtual representation stage of digital image production and takes on a new political explosiveness here.
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