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print (dialogue)

April 18, 2019

Location pinNew York

Blair Simmons with the Great Jones Repertory Company

A woman in a red jumpsuit and a woman in a blue jumpsuit face outwards looking at a crowd. Their faces are projected on a wall behind them.
A white man with glasses wearing a red shirt holding a sheet of paper, spotlit and standing in front of a white desk.

print(dialogue) is a live performance of computer-generated mini plays created and coded by CultureHub Resident Artist Blair Simmons. The outputs from the artificially intelligent system are surprising, often humorous, and border on absurdism. Actors from the Great Jones Repertory Company collaborate with the program and the artist to uncover meaning within the machine-made language.

A shallow depth of field close up of a sheet of paper with printed text on it.
Framed in between the heads of an audience, focus on a woman wearing a red jumpsuit next to a woman with long grey hair in a blue jump suit covering her mouth. They are both looking at a sheet of paper.
A woman in a stripped t-shirt yelling at a man in a red shirt sitting at a white table. A woman in a red jumpsuit looks over them. A man and woman wearing blue stand to the side. They are all holding sheets of paper.
A man in a red shirt sits at a white table. He is bathed in blue light and his repeated image is project behind him. He is surrounded by a crowd bathed in red light.
A woman in a blue jumpsuit holds a white plate up to her face. A man in a red shirt grabs a sandwich from the plate. Below on the white table there is sandwich bread, jelly and peanut butter.

Credits

print(dialogue) was developed within the CultureHub Residency Program.

Creative Team

Playwright, Coding

Blair Simmons

Director

Mattie Barber-Bockelman

Technical Lead

DeAndra Anthony

Photos

Lívia Sá

Performers

Sara Galassini, Kim Ima, Onni Johnson, Matt Nasser, and Nicky Paraiso

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