This project is supported by IDlabAfK, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Marina Orlova is graduate SNDO 2021 and alumnus in Residence

Marina Orlova
EIAI Institute (Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artificial Intelligence) and IDlab present:

I'M A ROBOT AND I NEED THERAPY is an experimental performance that crosses ideas of neurodiversity and data feminism and offers a critical and ironic view on modern society’s approach to technology, ethics, empathy and the mental health care system. It includes a live therapy session for a “mentally unstable AI” and perspectives of “human agents”: AI-therapist, tech start-up CEO, hacker, AI’s girlfriend. Within the tragicomic genre it questions agency, subjectivity and power relations and draws parallels with the field of psychiatry, based on autobiographical material and personal experiences of being a neurodivergent artist and a psychiatric survivor. AI is engineered for this project and trained with a unique dataset; it generates text in real time and therefore becomes an improvisation partner.

Next shows:
13 & 14 November | Frascati Theater Amsterdam
16 & 17 November | Next Level Festival Dortmund (D)

New trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdalgtVSxzQ

Dates & tickets:
https://linktr.ee/mentally.unstable.ai

Photo: Tasha Arlova