REPLIKA 2052 A.D. TOTENTANZ III
REPLIKA 2052 A.D.: everyone has two personas. One private and the other digital. To keep their family together, Oscar and his sister Arianna find themselves in a hybrid reality, half real and half digital.
REPLIKA 2052 A.D. – You will continue to exist, even when you exist no longer. Prepare to meet your true virtual self.
Arianna, born in 2025, lives in a flat that looks after her, designed to maximise her productivity: her data is constantly monitored and serves as a basis for suggested routines and meals. She works as a graphic designer for the metaverse Utòpia. Meetings with her brother Oscar, a musician and computer scientist who visits her daily as an avatar, are vital to her. Until one day, a terrible doubt arises in her mind…
It’s a show that touched me deeply, that scared me. It’s a wake-up call. Let’s become human again and have the courage to show our vulnerabilities and let ourselves be surprised. But never by a diabolical machine invented by us! We deceive ourselves that it is our ally but will soon be our enemy. It will kill us! It’s a show that I would like to watch again and will recommend to my friends.
Beatrice L.
We are in 2052. Our imprint on the increasingly present and complex internet has grown exponentially. The details of our “phigital” (physical and digital) life, recorded through digital assistants, computers, phones, watches, smart glasses, and other devices, and reflected in the universe of the network, form our digital shadow, a person. In REPLIKA year 2052, we piece together data dispersed across clouds and computers to recreate human existence through a three-dimensional avatar, composed from our memories as recorded across the internet.
A visionary show set in the future, discussing the future and the existing technologies. It’s aimed at people of all generations and ages, posing questions on themes always present in human history: life and death.
Lorena
Computers and robots will be able to understand humans and their world, expressions, moods, and inner life and respond to them with ever greater intelligence and fidelity. They are transforming from work tools into partners that not only advise humans in fields such as medicine and science, but increasingly enter our intimacy, knowing us better than we can know ourselves.
Today, an enormous amount of our data is stored on the internet: our phones continuously record our location, the faces in the photos we take are analysed and recognized, and digital assistants listen to our conversations around the clock, analyse them, and archive them. Our watches continuously record our most personal data: heart rate, movement, breathing rate, body temperature, and blood oxygen saturation are collected and analysed, indicating our stress level, sleep quality, and menstrual cycle. Our scales send not only our weight to the cloud but also our muscle mass and bone weight.
A touching projection of the future. Exceptional representation, in which one is carried, from beginning to end, in a whirlwind of emotions, which makes one reflect. Realistic set design, plain text, and engaging actors. In addition, the real added value was watching from the stage, which made the emotions more intense, as if I were the protagonist.
Gabriele B.
Through more or less simple algorithms, the systems behind social media can, in a few steps, define our annual income, our political, social, religious, and cultural beliefs, and see not only our gender but also our sexual preferences. Music platforms hold a clear imprint of our tastes. Online booksellers know our intellectual and cultural level with precision; they also record in real time which book we are reading, when, and how fast. Add the details of our online purchases and financial data from banks and insurance companies to this picture, and you will have a precise and deep image of our persona.
This is today. The REPLIKA of each of us is under development.
The show REPLIKA 2052 A.D. is the third chapter of the TOTENTANZ trilogy, following Totentanz – the quarantine and Totentanz – the diaries, and concluding the multi-year project Where do you come from? | Who am I? | Where are we going?
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