BEYOND THE BINARY
Beyond the Binary: A Meditation on Humans and Machines is a collaborative performance involving members of Immersive Kinematics, UPenn’s GRASP Lab, the Weitzman School of Design, and the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia. The show celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the coining of the term “robot” by exploring the development of dialogue between humans and non-humans in contemporary culture.
Immersive Kinematics: Simon Kim, Mark Yim
Project Manager: Logan Weaver
Student Teams:
“Welcome” | Xinlei Liu, Zihao Jin, Joanna Wang, Joah Kim, Brian Zhang, Andreas Alexandrou, Eunice Lee
“Lioneyes” | Joshua Ren, Justin Duhamel, Jonathan Mairena, Jeonginn Park, Zachary Hahn, Jin-Seung Lee
“Particulate” | Saptarshi Sadhu, Aadith Jayakumar, Andy Hu, Tianyun Zhao
“Flowers and Fruit” | Lilian Stoesser, Bingyu Guo, Diego Ramirez, Tao Xu, David Bunn, Anokhee Chokshi, Dayong Tong, Xiaoyu Wang, Jared Rogers
“Starlight” | Sam Biddle, Noam Aizenburg, Tim Kulesza
“Oracle” | Miguel Matos, Ling Ye, Richard Prescott, Alex Ge, Mallika Yedla
“How Remarkable is the Robot” | Evan Grant, Beikel Rivas, Martin Alijaj, Celestina Savena
A collaboration with composer Andrea Clearfield, librettist Ellen Frankel, director Dominick DiOrio, instrument designer David Kontak, and members of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia.
Photographs and videos of performance by Andrew Matia and Amber Farrow