Robot w fabryce uczuć
A Robot in a Factory of Feelings

Summary/Abstract: Marcin Bogucki reviews a performance My Square Lady: Von Menchen und Maschinen a British/Herman co-production by Gob Squad and Komische Oper in Berlin (premiere: 21.06.2015). The play uses a site-specific strategy to tackle the issue of relationships between people and robots, with a special focus on the emotional relationship of the artists to the machines they have created. An interesting thread of the play, and one emphasized by Bogucki, is the issue of robots' cognitive processes in the context of work on artificial intelligence. The author notes that Gob Squad have managed to weave a “fantasia on the subject of robots, which were meant to be a remedy for all of humanity's ills, and on opera as a conservative institution that tells us how to feel and how to control our emotions.”

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