"Theater in the 21st century, transformed by the introduction of digital technologies, is designed to immerse the audience in an augmented reality. Where building a set used to require carpenters and set designers, now theatermakers like Kevin Laibson, a Brooklyn-based performance technologist, rely on tools of the virtual reality trade to devise innovative and compelling work. To Laibson, 44, who is staging an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Harmfulness of Tobacco,""
"His one-man show, , which is showing at in the Lower East Side on Sunday afternoon, is about his experience working with a series of artificial intelligence platforms and uses tools regularly employed in virtual and mixed reality to deliver a 70-minute lecture that, much like the Chekhov play, consistently veers off topic and is never completed."
Kevin Laibson stages an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Harmfulness of Tobacco" as a one-man, 70-minute lecture that uses virtual and mixed reality tools and AI platforms. The production integrates Snapdragon processors, telepresence software, and multi-source motion-capture devices to create an augmented, spatially activated performance. Audiences encounter an unexpected participation contract and experience a work that intentionally veers off topic and remains incomplete. Laibson collaborates with Agile Lens to prototype future performance technologies. He frames VR theater as analogous to black-box theater and emphasizes playful experimentation, describing his recent practice as applying sophisticated software to intentionally absurd uses.
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