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Performance directed and designed by Stodara and performed by Greta Gicheva.
Bobbina Cultural Space and the theatre of Sofia University, Cultural Centre SU St. Kliment Ohridski.
October-November 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria.
“The Last Citadel” is a philosophical performance exploring the aesthetics of artificial intelligence tasked with expressing love. An android in the process of learning begins to display various reactions, calculating each individual user’s need for affection. The data it processes is generated by an algorithm drawing from global internet sources – pop culture symbols, music, gestures, and objects. In its early learning phase, the robot engages users in a way that is deliberately jarring and surgically unemotional, but as it accumulates data and associations, it gradually refines its ability to express love.
In the end, what can an android truly understand about love? And are we ready to trust it?
At Bobbina Cultural Space, the performance was followed by the presentation “How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our Lives in the Next 3–5 Years” by AI expert Petar Petrov. At Sofia University’s “St. Kliment Ohridski” theatre hall, it was accompanied by a discussion on the formative role AI plays in shaping contemporary imagination, featuring Mihaela Dobreva, Vassil Vidinsky, and Nikolay Genov, moderated by Monika Vakarelova.
The performance was realised with the support of Etude Gallery.
Photography by Boriana Pandova – Burya.
On the website of the Cultural Centre Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (in Bulgarian):
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