BECOME A CONTESTANT
BECOME A CONTESTANT
PREMIERING AT
COMEDY — INTERACTIVE — INTERDISCIPLINARY
Our emails are writing themselves! It’s weird, right?
Think you can tell human
from machine?
Become the next contestant in this
humorous interactive quiz show!
Win the fastest finger contest.
Take the hot seat.
Use your lifelines —
ask the audience or chat to our AI Expert.
Is that your final answer?
Okay AI, show us why you wrote that!
We’ll try not to get woozy thinking like algorithms.
Come feel the sentient satisfaction of being a human in an automated world.
SHOWS
PREVIEW
Saturday, September 9
18:30, €11
PERFORMANCES
Sunday, September 10
20:45, €13/€11
Monday, September 11
20:45, €13/€11
Tuesday, September 12
20:45, €13/€11
VENUE
The Lir Academy — Studio 2
DURATION
75 minutes
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EVEN MORE PERFORMANCES
For one night only, the show will be up at VISUAL in Carlow
Friday 6 October
Get tickets here.
SHOW CO-CREATORS
Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin + ADAPT Research Centre) and Laura Allcorn (Artist + Performer + founder of Institute For Comedic Inquiry) met in a Science Gallery Dublin residency program that paired artists and researchers in 2021. This show is their second act! Their first was SKU-Market, an interactive mini-market about social profiling algorithms. It was part of Science Gallery Dublin’s BIAS: Built This Way exhibition in 2021-22.
They created this interactive quiz show to make it fun for audiences to explore how AI powered generative text applications (like ChatGPT) actually work. How does this technology shape our self expression, relationships, thinking, and language? What exactly does it mean to be human in an automated world?
Round after round, an absurd amount of comedic tension will rise as our contestants obsessively try to channel their inner algorithm to make sense of cringy writing suggestions made by AI in emails.
YOUR HOST
LAURA ALLCORN
YOUR AI EXPERT
JENNIFER EDMOND
TEAM
Laura Allcorn — Co-Creator, Principal Artist + Show Host
Jennifer Edmond — Co-Creator, Principal Investigator + AI Expert
Aoife Taylor — Lead Producer
Sal Stapleton — Motion Designer
Kevin Fink — Sound Design
Peter Bond — Lead Technician
Ré Ní Bhroin — Technician
Cydney Thompson — Stagehand
Patrick Edmond — Voice Over Talent
Daragh O’Connor — Set Builder
Aisling Murray — Executive Producer
Mitzi D’Alton — Consulting Producer
Shaun Ussher — Evaluator
