FIAF’s Young Audience Program invites school groups to a special performance of dSimon, followed by a Q&A with the show’s creators, Simon Senn and Tammara Leites.
Swiss artist Simon Senn uses theater to investigate today’s most exciting and controversial technological development: artificial intelligence (AI). Making its New York premiere at FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival this fall, the production features Simon Senn, Tammara Leites, and dSimon—an AI entity voiced by French actor Arnaud Mathey—and relates the intriguing story of dSimon’s creation. When Leites trains an AI to become a writer, she integrates it with Senn’s personality, personal data, and messaging. Events take an unsettling turn as dSimon begins to behave strangely, leaving Senn and Leites with a now autonomous, disturbing, and yet familiar monster.
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About Simon Senn
Simon Senn is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Geneva in 1986.
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Simon Senn earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève and a Master’s degree at Goldsmiths College in London. His work as a visual artist is represented by the Nicola Von Senger Gallery in Zurich and has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, and the Kunstmuseum Bern. Senn was awarded the Swiss Performance Prize in 2011 and the Swiss Art Prize in 2010. Be Arielle F, his first production for the stage, has been presented in international festivals such as the Festival d’Automne in Paris and the Carrefour International de Théâtre in Quebec; it has been translated and surtitled in seven languages. During the health crisis of 2020, a live stream and adapted version of the show was created. In September 2021, Senn created dSimon at the Théâtre de Vidy, in collaboration with Tammara Leites.
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About Tammara Leites
Tammara Leites was born and raised in Uruguay and currently lives in Geneva. She holds a Master’s degree in Media Design from the Geneva School of Art and Design.
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Tammara Leites was born and raised in Uruguay and currently lives in Geneva. She has always had a passion for technology and the way society interacts with it. After studying programming, graphic design, and visual communication, and in order to design projects that allow her to combine her interests with her creativity, she earned a Master’s degree in Media Design at the Geneva School of Art and Design. At the same time, she joined Transmii Studio as a director of new technologies. Leites’s work takes the form of a reflection on what if means to be a connected human being on a daily basis.
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