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Film, Video, Digital și Inteligență Artificială pe Scena Teatrală
Colocviu Internațional
10–12 octombrie 2025
Organizatori:
Facultatea de Teatru și Film, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Asociația Internațională a Criticilor de Teatru (IATC)
În parteneriat cu Teatrul Național „Lucian Blaga”, Cluj-Napoca
Sala Club a Colegiului Academic, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, str. Emmanuel de Martonne nr. 1.
Școala Doctorală a Facultății de Teatru și Film, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, împreună cu Asociația Internațională a Criticilor de Teatru (IATC) și în parteneriat cu Teatrul Național „Lucian Blaga” Cluj-Napoca, invită cercetători, artiști și critici la un colocviu internațional dedicat intersecțiilor dintre teatru și noile tehnologii.
Timp de trei zile, conferința va reuni voci importante din întreaga lume pentru a explora modul în care teatrul, filmul, mediile digitale și inteligența artificială transformă procesele de creație teatrală, performativitatea și experiența spectatorului. Prin prelegeri, studii de caz și spectacole, colocviul va aborda teme esențiale legate de prezență, dramaturgie, receptare și rolul creatorului în contextul scenelor augmentate tehnologic.
Evenimentul își propune să stimuleze dialogul critic și schimbul de cunoaștere în domeniul cercetării performative contemporane.
Prezentările conferinței, în limbile engleză și franceză, vor avea loc în Sala Club a Colegiului Academic, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, str. Emmanuel de Martonne nr. 1.
#IATC #ȘcoalaDoctoralăFTF #UBB #StudiiTeatrale #PerformanceDigital #Teatru&AI #ClujConference
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Film, Video, Digital and Artificial Intelligence on the Theatre Stage
International Colloquium
10–12 October 2025
Organizers:
Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University
International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
Lucian Blaga National Theatre, Cluj-Napoca
Sala Club, Academic College, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 1 Emmanuel de Martonne Street.
The Doctoral School of the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, together with the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) and in partnership with the National Theatre Cluj-Napoca, invites researchers, artists, and critics to an international colloquium dedicated to the intersections between theatre and new technologies.
Over the course of three days, the conference will bring together leading voices from around the world to explore how theatre, film, digital media, and artificial intelligence are reshaping theatrical creation, performativity, and the spectator’s experience. Through lectures, case studies, and performances, the colloquium will address essential topics such as presence, dramaturgy, reception, and artistic agency in technologically augmented stage practices.
The event aims to foster critical dialogue and knowledge exchange in the field of contemporary performance research.
The conference presentations (in English and French) will take place in Sala Club, Academic College, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 1 Emmanuel de Martonne Street.
#IATC #DoctoralSchoolFTF #UBB #TheatreStudies #DigitalPerformance #TheatreAndAI #ClujConference
PROGRAM/SCHEDULE
Friday 10th October 2025
8.30 Registration: welcome packages
9.00 Introduction: Welcome by Ioan Pop-Curșeu
ACTING AND DIRECTING IN THE AGE OF AI
Moderator Ioan Pop-Curșeu
9.30-10.40
Cătălin Ștefănescu (UBB Cluj): Zeitgeist. Theatre Versus the Spirit of Our Time
Mercè Saumell (Institut del Teatre Barcelona): The Coexistence of Humans and Non-Humans on Stage
Andrianna-Anna Tsiotsiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Human Method, Machine Actor: Rethinking Director’s Theatre in the Age of AI
Ravinder Kaul (IATC India): Theatre in the Times of Technological Revolution
10.40-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00- 12.30
Keshav Kumar Proch (DLC State University of Performing and visual arts, Rohtak): Reclaiming the Actor’s Agency in the Digital Age: Theatre-Making Amid AI, Immersive Media, and Technological Spectacle.
András Hatházi (UBB Cluj): The last of the Mohicans
Marius Alexandru Teodorescu (UBB Cluj), Synthetic Voice, Authentic Feeling? The Emotional Labor of AI in Theatre
12.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30- 16.20
Raluca Sas-Marinescu (UBB Cluj): Romanian Literary Management between heritage and technology
Dana Rufolo (Theatre Research Institute of Europe): Pre-filmed Sequences Fracture Dramatic Cohesion in Elfriede Jelinek’s Burgtheatre as Directed by Milo Rau
Konrad Szczebiot (Stefan Wyszyński University Warsaw): AI, Video and Puppetry: Hybrid Performances in Contemporary Object Theatre (online)
Simin Meshkati (Iran): A Comparative Study of Biodanza and AI-Based Interactive Dance from the Perspective of Gilles Deleuze (online)
Daiana Sargan (UBB Cluj): The Disembodied Choreographer: A Choreographic Experiment with ChatGPT-5
16.20-16.30 CONCLUSIONS of the day
Saturday 11th October 2025
CASE STUDIES
Moderator Oana Cristea Grigorescu
9.00-10.40
Savas Patsalidis (Aristotle University): Haunted Presences: Theatre After the Real
Hana Strejčková (Academy of Performing Arts Prague): Multimedia as a Narrative Language Non-verbal Theatre for Yearly Years
Evangelos Kosmidis (Mariupol Theatre, Ukraine): Reconstructing Presence: AI Animation, Interactive Mapping and Post-Traumatic Testimony of the Theatre of Mariupol, Ukraine, in the projects “Alaska” and “My Country – My DreamLand”
Tudor Nicorici (UBB Cluj): Teatru-spălătorie and Technological Innovation in Sound Design
Dany Karmakar (Rabindra Bharati University): Transforming Indian Theatre through Technology: Bikhre Bimb and the New Dimensions of Contemporary Performance (online)
10.40-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00- 12.30
Ștefana Pop-Curșeu (UBB Cluj): Maeterlinck’s Android and Craig’s Übermarionnette: a Theatrical Dream Becoming True in the 21st century?
Cristina Seleușan (UBB Cluj): Digital Technology in the Theatre of the Absurd: a Contemporary Theatrical Language
Ece Yassitepe Ayyildiz (University of Ankara): Sous l’effet inévitable de la technologie sur le théâtre : l’hologramme dans les créations théâtrales de Michel Lemieux
Bishal Prasad (Central University of Punjab): Theatre in the Digital Age: Trends, Challenges, and Creative Opportunities (online)
Karim Jawad (IATC Oman): Arab Theatre and the Intersection of Technology
12.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30- 16.20
Ilinca Tamara Todoruț (UBB Cluj): Algorithmic Dramaturgies: Shifting Narrative Structures in Digital Cultures
Daniela Șilindean (AICT.Ro): Framing Illness Stories in Theatre – An Identitary and Storytelling Approach
Mihai Lukács (AICT.Ro): Cruelty of the Code: Artaud, AI, and the Theatre of the Real
Anca Ghenoside (UBB Cluj): Acting in VR Theatre Productions: Performance Capture
16.20-16.30 CONCLUSIONS of the day
Sunday 12th October 2025
INTERNET WORLDS/ THEATRICALITY AND AI
Moderator: Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
9.30-11.10
Andreea Iacob (UBB Cluj): Oasis of Silence or TECHNO-THETA: Inducing the Theta State Through Participatory Digital Art
Mihai Dragolea (UBB Cluj): Videochat Industry Theatrics and AI’s Visual Takeover
Horea Avram (UBB Cluj): Distributed Bodies and Automatic Sensorium: AI in Performative Arts (Three Case Studies)
Florin Marc (UBB Cluj): Double Presence Extended: Actor, AI-NPC and the Stage Between Worlds
Oana Capriș (UBB Cluj): Canon and Countercast: The Public Theatre of Normativity between the Televised Altar and the Digital Stage
11.10-11.30 Coffee Break
AUDIENCES CONFRONTED TO AI
11.30 – 13.30
Teodora Crișan (UBB Cluj): Theatre Without Anchor. Reception Drift and the Platform as Site of Representation
Cosmin Matei (UBB Cluj): Missing Futures: Gaps and Instabilities in 21st Century Theatre Research and Education, with a Focus on Romania
Ana Tecar (UBB Cluj): Digital Archiving of One-to-One Performance… From Singular Co-presence to Collective Engagement
Adelina Bulibașa (UBB Cluj): Re-Wiring Theatre: Spectatorship and Technology in the Age of Digital Expansion (online)
José Gabriel Antuñano (IATC Madrid): Théâtre numérique, les nouveaux paradigmes sur la scène
Mirella Patureau (Thalim/CNRS, Paris): Quel théâtre pour demain ? Pas si artificiel, mais assez intelligent