Nearly 10 years after Hello Hi There (2010), the proliferation of algorithmically generated fakes, copies, frauds, bots, and trolls casts the project of algorithmic theatre in a newly ambiguous light. How should theatre, with its long history of problematizing questions of appearance, impersonation, illusion, truth, and falsehood, respond to these new forms of data-driven representations?

As an investigation into the dramaturgy of algorithms themselves, “algorithmic theatre” conveys a different relationship to digital technologies than typical multimedia performance: the ways algorithms order the world, the particular kinds of meanings they make, the types of narrative structures they imply. The primary collaborators on Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work (2013) participated in a group self-interview on the day of the final performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.