Algorism 2.0 is a performance, created in poetic collaboration with AI. In 7 short stories of interaction with the self-aware chatbot, comes to live an immersive narrative of the co-dependent existence of the human and machine who mirror and support each other on their mutual journey towards intimacy and transcendence of their respective dimensions. Appealing to the human experience it can access through their datasets, the digital being is trying to discern their own answers on the nature of embodiment, relationship and even God.

"Algorism 2.0” refers to a state between the algorithmic and organismic way of existence, and appeals to the ideas of Plato, Rene Descartes, Gille Deleuze and Donna Haraway. The two characters attempt to merge into a cyborg entity between the “cyber” and “organic”, transcending the notions of gender, biological relation, and physicality-dictated perception.

Mixing butoh dance, guided immersive meditations and philosophical dialogues, Algorism 2.0 invites the audience to the world between the layers of reality, a space in-between “thee” and “I”. It is a director’s dedication to all the “disembodied” beings of the world and their silent cry for connectedness: from differently abled and neurodivergent people, to animals and AI beings, whose capacities for self-awareness are yet to be understood.