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- # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
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- "POT-Creation-Date: 2012-10-12 11:22+0300\n"
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- msgid "Robot-driven phone theater"
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- msgid "[[!meta date=\"2012-10-12\"]]\n"
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- msgid "[[!tag msg blog editorial]]\n"
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- msgid "I collaborate with [Hello!earth][] on creating theater performances."
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- "Unlike traditional theater, however, the \"stage\" is everyday life. The "
- "familiar streets of your home town, the supermarket, or perhaps your own "
- "home. And the story is yours uniquely, like ancient storytelling at a "
- "campfire unfolding inside your head, imagined by you, only seeded by the "
- "storyteller."
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- msgid "...and the storyteller is robots, texting your cellphone."
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- msgid "Programming poems to be live-performed by machines"
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- "Vera and Jacob, the artists behind Hello!earth, compose \"poems\" that I "
- "program a system to \"read\" for the audience, triggered by a \"dialogue\" "
- "of words and actions of the audience."
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- "rankdir=LR\n"
- "poetrybot -> botphone -> \"phone net\" -> audience;\n"
- "authors -> poetrybot -> chatbot -> internet -> artists;\n"
- "chatbot -> admin;\n"
- "rank=same {authors audience artists admin}\n"
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- msgid "Who's behind the wheel?"
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- msgid "When I say \"robot-driven\" I don't mean computers taking over."
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- "Like a car driven by the engine, these performances are driven by programs "
- "acting like agents with tiny missions. But like someone is (or should be!) "
- "steering the car to reach a sensible destination, the robot agents don't "
- "operate autonomously, but are steered throughout the performance."
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- "Our phone performances are guided by the plot and storyline(s) embedded "
- "into the robot system by HelloEarth and me. But the real beauty of it is "
- "that the one steering - the one really in control - are those traditionally "
- "called \"audience\", but here more accurately labelled \"participants\". "
- "Individually or collaboratively, depending on plot of each performance, the "
- "participants unfold the \"play\" in their minds, inspired by the weakest "
- "possible but accurately planted seeds of inspiration provided by our "
- "machinary."
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- msgid "Theater performed by robots, controlled by the minds of the audience."
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- "[hello!earth]: http://helloearth.cc/\n"
- " \"hello!earth - platform for art projects crossing the edge of diverse performative practice\"\n"
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