WGLT-FM: ISU's Freestage Theater Explores Arts And AI
By Charlie Schlenker
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The new play "The Hologram in the Mirror" premiered Friday evening in central Illinois and runs through Sunday. It posits artificial intelligence will disrupt the arts.
Director Carol Kelleher, a senior at Illinois State University, said AI already is affecting some branches of the arts, in particular music, but is edging into other territory.
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“There is already AI that is basically auto-generating whole plays and movie scripts and poetry. It can author a whole book that is completely original, although of course there is the philosophical question: Is it original if it is completely synthesized from existing things?” said Kelleher.
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Vidette: FreeStage to perform 'The Hologram in the Mirror'
By Abigail Mitsven
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FreeStage will premiere the new play “The Hologram in the Mirror,” directed by Carol Kelleher at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday at Illinois State University.
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“The Hologram in the Mirror,” written by Mike Kelleher, is a play set in the future foreshadowing a world where Artificial Intelligence creates significant disruption in the arts and literature created and consumed by humans.
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