Crossing Borders: Robots as Puppets

Authors

  • Christian Fuchs

Keywords:

puppet theatre, object theatre, marionettes, artificial intelligence, digitality, robots

Abstract

Robots perform on stage in a similar manner like puppets and can act as if they were autonomous artificial beings. A long tradition of thinking about artificial humans in literature and arts is associated with this form of representation which is gaining increasing importance nowadays.

Author Biography

  • Christian Fuchs

    Born 1972 in Düsseldorf, studied music theatre directing in Hamburg as a scholarship holder of the music theatre direction in Hamburg and has been working as a freelance director since 2003 at opera and puppet theatre in Würzburg, Halle, Erfurt and other cities and Leipzig. He was dramaturge at the Waidspeicher Theatre in Erfurt and director of the Junges theatre in Nordhausen and project manager at the Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig. Since August 2019 he has been a freelance director and puppeteer. He lives with his family in Leipzig.

Titel 2020 1.1

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Published

2020-10-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1.1 (2020): dolls/puppets as artificial beings. Part 1.1

Section

Miscellaneous

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Christian Fuchs

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How to Cite

Crossing Borders: Robots as Puppets. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, v. 3, n. 1.1, p. 99–105, 20 Oct.2020.