During the Covid-19 lockdown, the BMO Lab has been hosting regular zoom-based meetings of actors, directors, and other theatre people to present the Lab, its facilities and technologies and its mission to the Toronto and International theatre community. Lab Director David Rokeby presented introductions to various technologies and approaches such as motion capture, GPT-2 based text generation, Generative Adversarial Networks for face generation and real-time scenography, virtual face puppetry.
The wonderful group of actors, directors and artistic directors posed provocative questions and each presentation lead to a lively and productive discussion.
These sessions are intended to prepare the ground for a variety of experiments in the Lab where theatre professionals work with emerging technologies and AI, to see what these technologies might bring to live performance.
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