You shall persist to subsist, even when you no longer subsist. Be primed to encounter your authentic virtual essence.
With the new show REPLIKA 2052 A.D., the Markus Zohner Arts Company projects its theatrical research into a nearby future. We find ourselves in 2052, thirty years from now. We gather scattered data from various clouds and computers to allow for the recreation of human existence through a three-dimensional avatar, composed of our memories recorded in the network of networks.
Computers and robots will be able to understand humans and their world, expressions, moods, and inner life and respond to them increasingly intelligently and truthfully. They are transforming from work tools into partners that not only advise humans in fields such as medicine and science, but increasingly enter our intimacy, knowing us better than we can know ourselves.
A visionary show set in the future, discussing the future and the existing technologies. It’s aimed at people of all generations and ages, posing questions on themes always present in human history: life and death.
Lorena
Today, an enormous amount of our data is stored on the internet: our phones continuously record our location, the faces in the photos we take are analysed and recognized, and digital assistants incessantly listen to our conversations day and night, analyse them, and archive them. Our watches continuously record our most intimate data: heart rate, movement, breathing rate, body temperature, and blood oxygen saturation are collected and analysed, indicating our stress level, sleep quality, and menstrual cycle. Our scales send not only our weight to the cloud but also our muscle mass, bone weight and body fat.
Through more or less simple algorithms, the systems behind social media can, in a few steps, define our annual income, our political, social, religious, and cultural beliefs, and see not only our gender but also our sexual preferences. Music portals have a clear imprint on our tastes. Online bookshops know with clarity our intellectual and cultural level, and not only that: they also record in real time which book we are reading at the moment and at what speed. Add the details of our online purchases and financial data from banks and insurance companies to this picture, and you will have a precise and deep image of our persona.
This is today. The REPLIKA of each of us is under development.
The show REPLIKA 2052 A.D. is the third chapter of the TOTENTANZ trilogy, following Totentanz – the quarantine and Totentanz – the diaries, and concluding the multi-year project Where do you come from? | Who am I? | Where are we going?
