Maschinengespräche

The codes speak. They speak as we have taught them. And with every word they say, the bots become more like us. That’s for sure.

In “Machine Conversations”, author and dramaturge Kristina Malyseva explores the possibilities and impossibilities of digital agents – codes to which we are increasingly entrusting our personal information. Algorithms that fill our warehouses and maintain our systems. Chatbots, which are unstoppably available for voice and service calls. The result is a play about the stories we tell our machines and the depths we have gone to in order to create them.
All texts are generated in cooperation with machines. Together with chatbots, networks and large language models, Kristina Malyseva programs a text that is fed from a seemingly infinite mass of stored texts from human history – a theater text that constantly re-evaluates itself, that reacts and that negotiates the question of the extent to which acting and technology can intertwine. …