The lecture-performance “Why Do Robots Need Therapy?” is a Cooperation between Un-Label and KISD and presents excerpts from Marina Orlova’s performance “I’m a Robot and I need Therapy”. The lecture includes a therapy session with a mentally unstable/neurodivergent AI patient and an open focus group session.
This presentation is based on research by EIAI Institute (Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artificial Intelligence), a project that explores the intersections of technology ethics, data feminism, and the anti-psychiatry movement.
When: March 25 2025 | 19 o’clock
Where: Un-Label Studio, Hosterstraße 1-5, Cologne
The performance takes place in English spoken language.
Marina Orlova is an independent dance/theatre maker and tech dramaturg. After receiving education in sociology in Moscow (‘09), Marina has been active as a self-taught dance artist and later moved to Amsterdam to study at SNDO at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance (‘21). She presented her works at Frascati Theater, Veem House, Flam Festival Amsterdam, Next Level Festival. Since 2020 she has been working with AI, taking the role of mediator between AI engineering logic and theatre apparatus and creating anti-disciplinary performances on the crossover of mental health, AI ethics and Data feminism. Her other topics are migration and border politics. She is currently in artistic residence at L.I.K – Laboratory for Inclusive Culture by Un-Label in Cologne.
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