A Note from the Creators
What do two emerging artists and a senior artist who have formed an adhoc collective called Neuro Bureau really know about AI? Turns out, not much more than anybody else who has access to the internet. Certainly, nothing approaching levels of serious proficiency. How comfortable could they be therefore, in making a show about AI? Not very! Long story short, the more we worked on Dragon I the more we realised that we knew more about standing on the beach watching the AI tsunami approach than the actual nature of the technological ‘wave’ itself. This show is a response to that. Adam, Ben and James collaborated successfully on the show ARCO which, five years later, is still touring. Then Adam aged out of WA Youth Theatre Company and James left the role of AD of the company to do other things. Finding themselves free they decided to ‘put the band back together’ and see what emerged. Dragons and AI were the big areas of interest but, as always, from a neuro diverse perspective. Dragon I , written by Adam and James with input from the newest Neuro Bureau member, performer Jade Del Borrello, is a kind of onstage fever dream in an age of rapidly shifting and often very unclear technological goal posts.
In a nutshell, as so many creatives are wrestling with these days, Dragon I is a kind of ‘To AI or not to AI’ proposition. It is centred around artist Adam Kelly’s long-lived passion for all things dragon and his own extensive dragon story making. Structured as a talk about dragons that gets derailed, Dragon I explores the complex conundrum of creative assistance. In this case, offered by an unwelcome technological guest. Five neurodiverse artists and three neurotypical ones have collaborated on this project to take the audience on a journey about what it means to be creative, to be human and to share the magic of creating in real time.
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