Paper short abstract:

How can an android actor empathically involve the spectator? How can language written by a machine be human? Through the notions of performativity, agency, entanglement and intra-action it will be discuss how to motivate a non-human contribution to a theatrical dramaturgy.

Paper long abstract:

In the last twenty years theatre, the art par excellence of ritual and the human, has welcomed artificial intelligence and robotics as pivotal elements in the creative process. Theatre experiments deserve a cross-analysis that takes into account the reaction of the users engaged in the dramaturgical performance experience as well as that of machines and devices understood as autonomous intelligent agents. The human-robot hybrid artistic process will be analyzed through performative, dramaturgical and interactive settings, that will use the AI and the robot not as a support or as "an object" to be employed by humans, but as a peer, an interaction partner in the perspective of an "interspecies cooperation". How can an android actor empathically involve the spectator? How can language written by a machine be human? Through the notions of performativity, agency, entanglement and intra-action, as rethought by New Materialism and Neuroscience, it will be discuss how to motivate a non-human contribution to a theatrical dramaturgy.