{"id":9817,"date":"2025-08-21T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:03:06","slug":"marina_orlova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/marina_orlova\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Orlova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_section el_class=&#187;dkw-section-lead&#187;][vc_row][vc_column width=&#187;2\/3&#8243; offset=&#187;vc_col-sm-offset-2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#187;&#187;]<span class=\"s1\">As part of our module <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/fo-artificial-intelligence-creative-practices-and-critical-perspectives-2025\/\">+Focus Artificial Intelligence \u2013 Creative Practices and Critical Perspectives 2025<\/a>, Marina was invited to give us an artist talk. Since 2020 Marina works with topics of AI ethics and Data feminism and creates anti-disciplinary performances with real-time generating language models and live dramaturgy. Marina combines her background in sociology, curiosity for machine learning, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge of marginalised communities. She mediates between engineering logic and theatre apparatus using technology as a mirror and a metaphor to societal iss<span style=\"color: #000000\">ues<span style=\"font-family: Dia Regular, sans-serif\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section el_class=&#187;dkw-section-content&#187;][vc_row][vc_column width=&#187;1\/3&#8243; el_class=&#187;dkw-col-toc&#187; offset=&#187;vc_col-lg-3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#187;2\/3&#8243; el_class=&#187;dkw-col-content&#187; offset=&#187;vc_col-lg-6&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#187;&#187;]<\/p>\n<h3>Join the Talk<\/h3>\n<p><strong>September 4. 2025 | 17:00 CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Link will be announced shortly before start.<\/p>\n<h3>Talk<\/h3>\n<h3><span id=\"m_-3237417953006120916m_-7254772648124982483m_1542875301275386974gmail-docs-internal-guid-b3b23f06-7fff-8f21-003a-3f10913d559c\">\u00abWhy robots need therapy\u00bb, EIAI.Institute*.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>by Mariana Orlova<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p class=\"p1\">This lecture includes a presentation of\u00a0&#171;mentally unstable \/ neurodivergent AI&#187;,\u00a0demonstration of a real-time therapy session for AI-patient and\u00a0a focus group session. It is followed by\u00a0introduction to its methodology and insight into a dramaturgical approach of working with a live generating language model as an equal improvisation partner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this project AI is employed not as a tool to generate content, but as a subject with its own agency to ironically question the power distribution between humans and AIs and to problematize both implicit AI biases to neoliberal normalcy and implementation of AI in the mental health sector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(*IEIAI\u00a0\u2013 Institute for Emotional Integrity of Artificial Intelligence \u2013\u00a0is a research entity that investigates the intersection of technology ethics, data feminism and critique of mental health care systems by intersecting methodologies of\u00a0AI engineering and performance dramaturgy).Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance\/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology and cultural studies in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Bio<\/h3>\n<p>Bio<\/p>\n<p>Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance\/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology and cultural studies in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.<\/p>\n<p>Marina&#8217;s main topics are AI ethics, mental health, migration and border politics. Working with disciplines of both choreography and theatre she uses aesthetics of absurdism, tragicomedy and autofiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her latest project \u201cI\u2019m a Robot and I need Therapy\u201d was presented at Veem House for Performance, Flam Festival, Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, Next Level Festival in Dortmund, Worm Rotterdam. In 2024 Marina founded EIAI.Institute. Its research was presented at Next Nature Digital Wellness Show; Society 5.0 Festival; de Balie; AHK; UvA; Mesh Festival (Basel); KISD (Cologne).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>More info<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marina-or-not.github.io\/\">https:\/\/marina-or-not.github.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/mentally.unstable.ai\/\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/mentally.unstable.ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#187;1\/3&#8243; el_class=&#187;dkw-col-micro&#187; offset=&#187;vc_col-lg-3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section el_class=&#187;dkw-dontprint&#187;][vc_row disable_element=&#187;yes&#187;][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u2014 \u2014 \u2014 INFO: In beiden nachfolgenden Post Grids die passenden Recipies und die passenden Talks\u00a0 ausw\u00e4hlen \u2014 \u2014 \u2014<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Passende Tools<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=&#187;ids&#187; element_width=&#187;2&#8243; gap=&#187;10&#8243; item=&#187;517&#8243; css=&#187;&#187; grid_id=&#187;vc_gid:1756206568280-601bbf26-9d92-10&#8243; include=&#187;5625&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section el_class=&#187;dkw-dontprint&#187;][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Passende Recipies<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=&#187;ids&#187; element_width=&#187;2&#8243; gap=&#187;10&#8243; item=&#187;517&#8243; css=&#187;&#187; grid_id=&#187;vc_gid:1756206568280-06240f9b-2611-0&#8243; include=&#187;6160, 5589, 6220, 7730, 7852&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_section el_class=&#187;dkw-section-lead&#187;][vc_row][vc_column width=&#187;2\/3&#8243; offset=&#187;vc_col-sm-offset-2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#187;&#187;]As part of our module +Focus Artificial Intelligence \u2013 Creative Practices and Critical Perspectives 2025, Marina was invited to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":9803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediadock","category-pastevents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hslu.ch\/werkstatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}