Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre
Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre is a podcast hosted by Tjaša Ferme exploring new forms of theatre interwoven with high tech. In the interviews, Tjaša probes at the "why”s and "how”s to demystify the intricate connection between the biological and artificial, as well as explore the innate wisdom of the body and how new tech can help us get a peek inside of our brains, bodies, and souls.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
A Wacky Play About a Global Pandemic That Came True
Host Tjaša Ferme chats with playwright Chisa Hutchinson about her play, Bleeding Class. Chisa was aiming to write a wacky satire about a global pandemic, but then everything came true. She says she’s…
00:41:50 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
An Homage to Theatre in The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy
Host Tjaša Ferme has an inspired conversation with the creative team of The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy. Creators go deep into demystifying the beautiful cohabitation of theatre and cinema in the piece,…
00:38:15 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Meltdown, an Opera About Two Thousand Ice-Elephants Melting Every Second
Host Tjaša Ferme chats with David Cote and Hai-Ting Chinn about their opera, Meltdown. This is an adventurous episode about arctic expeditions, drilling ice cores, what monodrama really means, and cr…
00:38:19 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Brecht and Sister Sylvester Defy Authority in Theatre
Host Tjaša Ferme talks to multimedia artist Sister Sylvester about Drinking Brecht/Good Genes, which cautions how simplistic readings of genetics have always led to fascism. Join a label-defying conv…
00:35:44 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Bringing Theatre to the Virtual Town Square
Creative director and choreographer Brandon Powers takes host Tjaša Ferme on a deep exploration of the merging of extended reality (XR) with theatre. He explains how theatremakers’ knowledge as spati…
00:45:22 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
A Virtual Reality Climate Musical with Synchronized Swimmers
Host Tjaša Ferme has a lighthearted chat with director, choreographer, and filmmaker Mary John Frank about the climate, virtual reality (VR) musicals, why VR works better in “one take,” and how and w…
00:30:17 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Creating a Cinematic Opera with Artificial Intelligence
Host Tjaša Ferme and media artist Ellen Pearlman discuss Ellen’s projects Language is Leaving Me and Noor: A Brain Opera. They go on a deep, granular dive into the loab: the psychic, unconscious, dar…
00:46:47 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
BodyMouth, a New Instrument Created by a Playwright
In this conversation with Kat Mustatea we chat about her piece, BodyMouth, that is also a new instrument where a dancer’s movements prompt a speech synthesizer. For an extra twist, we ponder if we co…
00:38:45 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
How Frog Embryos Inspired The Last Word
Fareeda Pasha wrote The Last Word based on Michael Levin's research on the first robots from living cells. We had a lighthearted conversation about spooky action at a distance in playwriting, equal-o…
00:34:07 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Interactive Audience Gameplay in Third Law
In this conversation with director Coral Cohen and sound and video designer Ettie Pin, we discuss the process of making a gamified play, Third Law. Insights from the makers take us through game theor…
00:40:58 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Theatre By and For Gamers
In this episode, Emma Bexell from Bombina Bombast, a performing arts company in Malmö, Sweden, takes us to the space of gamified society and theatre. Bombina Bombast combines documentary audio, gamin…
00:39:50 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Aerial Performance in a Wheelchair
Disabled choreographer, dancer, designer, engineer, and founding member of Kinetic Light, Laurel Lawson talks about performing aerially in a wheelchair, accessibility as its own artform rather than a…
00:41:19 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Gore and Myth in Theatre Mitu's (holy) BLOOD
In this episode we talk with the founding artistic director of Theater Mitu, Rubén Polendo, about the hope for the future that inspired Utopian Hotline—now traveling through space as part of the Gold…
00:43:37 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Science Theories Are Like Swiss Cheese
Annemarie Hagenaars is an astronomer, physicist, and actress. In this playful conversation with Tjaša, Annemarie speculates about Einstein's famous equations, love, and shares her own experiment that…
00:42:41 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Finding the Individual in Your Digital Choreography Library
LaJuné shares about the inception of Black Movement Library: a database of motion capture data from Black folks they created, while seeking to avoid the paradigms of erasure, extraction, and exploita…
00:33:54 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
A Circus Robot’s Death-Defying Act
Our guest, Josh Corn, is a true renaissance man. He uses technology to tell absurd and subversive stories about humanity. Josh built René—the most technologically advanced robotic arm from 2002, who …
00:39:58 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Automation, Slavery, Monsters, and Misery in Search of the Whole
Maud discusses monsters, and the “humanization process:” the idea that humanity asks of us to leave some part of the world at the door and opt in for a very specific, very small part of all that life…
00:41:19 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
A Twelve-Foot Robotic Arm, Like Chekhov Would Have Wanted
In this episode we chat with director Igor Golyak of Arlekin Players about the power of virtual theatre and the experience of using technology that had never before been used for live performance. An…
00:35:02 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Quipu: an Ancient Incan Recording Device
We dive deep with Anonymous Ensemble into LIontop: a technologically ambitious installation and multilingual performance that centers on Quechua voices; Google finally translating Quechua; and the my…
00:39:43 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Using Technology to Heal Trauma
Guest Heidi Boisvert believes that our bodies are archives of stories and if we can't get those stories out, the whole fabric of society will break down. When she worked in tech, addressing social is…
00:40:50 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
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