Ioana Jucan, "Language Games: AI in/as Performance," 2024-09-23

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This talk engages with a series of theatrical experiments that stage different AI language models.

It theorizes the inherently performative nature of AI and its alignment with the logic of the

capitalist spectacle, while exploring how theatrical play can subvert or displace this logic. The

talk seeks to contribute to critical discussions about the implications of AI in contemporary

culture and society, arguing that theatre and performance – both as analytical lenses and as

embodied practices – can add valuable insights to these discussions.

Dr. Ioana B. Jucan is an artist and scholar whose work bridges performance studies, media

studies, and philosophy. She is the author of Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machines and

Performative Objects (Stanford University Press, 2023) and co-author of Algorithmic

Authenticity (Meson Press, 2023). Her artistic practice encompasses multimedia and devised

performance, theatre directing, creative writing, and installation art, and has been performed

internationally. She is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Inquiry at Emerson College,

where she leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Theatre Project.

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