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KASPAROV 9000 @ Dudac (Dubai Digital Art Centre)
N3krozoft Ltd's newest transmedia performance KASPAROV 9000 explores the confrontation between human and machine intelligence, based on the historical match between chess world champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's software opponent Deep Blue in 1997.
The performance assaults the viewer with a fast-paced mixture of multiple video projection, dance (breakdance meeting russian folklore), an operatic score of voices (featuring TV commentators, diary entries of Garry Kasparov, as well as the internal rumblings of Deep Blue, rendered in the iconic voice of HAL, the board computer in Kubrik's 2001). Additionally, the Dubai Chamber Orchestra accompanies the action with orchestral renderings of computer game scores (such as the infamous Tetris).
As in earlier performative works, both historical and fictional elements recorded textual source material play an important role, such as the transcripts of live commentaries that were aired on American and Russian national television, as well as the log files of Deep Blue which were published by IBM corporation.
Premiere: December 7th 2007 at Dudac (Dubai Digital Art Centre)
KASPAROV 9000 @ Dudac (Dubai Digital Art Centre)
N3krozoft Ltd's newest transmedia performance KASPAROV 9000 explores the confrontation between human and machine intelligence, based on the historical match between chess world champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's software opponent Deep Blue in 1997.
The performance assaults the viewer with a fast-paced mixture of multiple video projection, dance (breakdance meeting russian folklore), an operatic score of voices (featuring TV commentators, diary entries of Garry Kasparov, as well as the internal rumblings of Deep Blue, rendered in the iconic voice of HAL, the board computer in Kubrik's 2001). Additionally, the Dubai Chamber Orchestra accompanies the action with orchestral renderings of computer game scores (such as the infamous Tetris).
As in earlier performative works, both historical and fictional elements recorded textual source material play an important role, such as the transcripts of live commentaries that were aired on American and Russian national television, as well as the log files of Deep Blue which were published by IBM corporation.
Premiere: December 7th 2007 at Dudac (Dubai Digital Art Centre)