ANIMA™ [Decoder Ensemble]

Anima™ Short Edit Version of the 90 minutes Performance. AI-based Performance Piece Premiere June 2022 IRCAM Paris, Decoder Ensemble, Fonds Darstellende Künste An institute for self-optimization. A church for transcendence. A simulation space for the bored escapist. A therapy session for the traumatized self. An iteration loop to break the pattern. Which pattern? The pattern. The pattern of self. The pattern of the subject. The pattern of internal world building: This framing is clear. Imagine an AI-driven institute that creates a virtual reality simulation of your life and human constellations. An explorative space, in which a computer entity shapes every interaction and communication - like in an extended therapy session. ANIMATM is a center to which people go to enter a simulated situation exemplifying passages and moments of their life - with changing parameters and modified realities. It is an AI-driven scenario run by a computer to provide psychologic insight