From and with Andreas Pfaffenberger
Performed by Andreas Pfaffenberger and a puppet within the Digithalia festival in Schuaspielhaus. This play took the Kasperl figure and turned it into an AI that is trained during the play. The AI goes from a very low state to very advanced, where it is able to ‘take over the world’. Showing problems and troubles that could arise and are arising with AI. Focusing on the question if artificial intelligence is really intelligent. Pfaffenberger took a fun approach to this performance, which made a possible heavier topic fun to watch. He raised some questions concerning AI.
There was not a lot of sound incorporated into the play, apart from his speaking voice, some sound effects were made by the performer itself. For example, waking up / turning on the Kasperl which sounded like a raising tone that then merged into the famous ‘Krawuzi Kapuzi’ from the Kasperl plays. Most of these ’self-made‘ sound effects were in interaction between the Kasperl and the performer.
The Kasperls voice was spoken by the performer as well. Apart from these, there were very few sound effects. One sounded like a toaster when Kasperl finished his update.
The performer used three recordings, which were played back over his phone and one recording of the Kasperls voice in the end coming from more loudspeaker which gave the impression the Kasperl was everywhere.
In my opinion, the performance could have benefited from more sound to make it even more entertaining or interesting. But also, the original Kasperl is very minimal, so this style fitted the purpose.
