It wasn’t me is a science fiction musical that raises questions about artificial intelligence, alternative worlds, religion, the future of the Earth and what in the reality that actually is real.
It wasn’t me is a collaboration between NewOpera CO and The Mainstream. The performance is created based on a text by German-Italian director and playwright Nicola Bremer, in close collaboration with German video artist and set designer Steffi Rehberg, singer and composer Saga Björklund Jönsson and composer, musician and singer Niklas Rydén.
It wasn’t me has been performed in several rounds at Atalante, shown at the Science Festival in Gothenburg and at festivals in Massinata|Italy, Porsgrunn|Norway and in Darmstadt|Germany, where the performance was created during a residency.
In connection with the performance, talks about new technology in the future have been arranged on several occasions. Among others, a Conversation about AI with Olle Häggström and Palle Dahlstedt
About the performance:
Saga Björklund Jönsson and Niklas Rydén are playing two scientists who, with the help of artificial intelligence, will create a new, better world. Playwright and director Nicola Bremer has collected quotes from articles, books and films together with texts created by AI software and dialogues generated by chat bots.
”I’d like to imagine God as some sort of mad scientist that programmed this dream-world that we live in. Because you know what? What we perceive as physical reality is actually a computer-generated simulation, like a super sophisticated video game, created by someone very powerful, that some of us call God. Or as I always say: holy shit.”
Film from performance 2019 at Atalante
Film from performance at the Science Festival in Göteborg 2022
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