Artificial intelligence and digital technologies are opening up new artistic, technical, and organizational possibilities for the performing arts: they are transforming production processes, stage spaces, formats of mediation, and forms of audience participation. At the same time, they raise new questions—such as issues of rights and the future development of engagements. There is also uncertainty about which technologies are actually relevant for one’s own practice, which skills will be needed in the future, and how working methods as well as the artistic identity of theatre and dance might change.

With the “Industry Impulse: AI and Digital Technologies in the Performing Arts,” we are creating a platform for one evening for theatre and dance practitioners from Hamburg to engage in discussion, exchange, and networking. Participants from the fields of music theatre and gaming, as well as other interdisciplinary areas connected to the performing arts, are explicitly invited.

Together, we aim to contextualize current developments, highlight concrete applications, discuss opportunities and risks, and explore perspectives for a self-determined, creative, and responsible use of digital technologies on and behind the stage.

Thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and Media, participation in this event—part of the Industry Impulses series—is free of charge (regular fee: €10). The event is organized in cooperation with the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft.

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