Location: Oulu Central Library Saari - Pakkala Hall
Address: Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu, Finland | Venue Information | Event Map

Captions are available for this session

Trial Against Humanity, an interactive installation-performance utilising AI, is the starting point for this presentation and discussion about how artistic practice shapes cross-sector collaboration, knowledge exchange and institutional development.

The production was designed as a research-driven process, where dramaturgical development, technological prototyping and interdisciplinary input were conducted in parallel, bringing together theatre makers with AI engineers from NetNordic, creative media and game technologies students, and a resource group of philosophers, biologists, doctors and lawyers. Using this case study, we open up how theatre evolves through partnerships across sectors, and how creative processes are enriched when they are ‘disrupted’ by perspectives from outside the cultural field.

Beyond the production itself, we explore what changes when these ways of working become part of how cultural organisations operate, and how collaboration with industry partners and wider communities can reshape how we finance and sustain our work, from audience development and sponsorship to the unexpected opportunities that emerge when artistic practice meets other fields on equal terms.

We invite you to explore with us a central thread: how cultural practice responds to a changing world - new technologies, perspectives and ways of working - while staying rooted in artistic practice.

Confirmed speakers:

Anders Hasmo, Det Norske Teatret, Norway

Resources:

ACuTe Digital Theatre: A Casebook, especially the article New Forms of Collaboration: Theatre and Technology in the Age of Artificial, by Peer Arne Perez Øian and Anders Hasmo