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GOOD COP BAD COP RETURN WITH THE SECOND ROUND OF THEIR INTERROGATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
Mewn sgwrs/in conversation is a live art performance which happens over a six hour period. The audience witness good cop bad cop conversing with an online artificial intelligence web application called Cleverbot. Date: 9th March 2013 Time: 4pm - 10pm Venue: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Ticket Price: £8/£6 Booking: www.chapter.org / 02920304400 Following the highly successful premiere at last year's Experimentica Festival, good cop bad cop bring their spontaneous, witty and genuinely experimental performance strategies to the table for another encounter with the future of conversation, Cleverbot. Cleverbot is an artificial intelligence web application which learns the art of conversation from the humans it talks with. good cop bad cop will construct and disrupt narratives, whilst working to deliberately exploit Cleverbot's unpredictability. Expect subjects from the banal to the unbelievable: science, sex and stupidity; art, anchovies and Arkansas. Mae good cop bad cop yn gweithio yn nwy iaith Cymru, Cymraeg a Saesneg, yn ol yr hyn sydd ei angen yn y gwaith ei hun.Mae'n debyg bydd y rhan fwyaf o'r sioe yn cael ei berfformio yn Saesneg. As the performance happens over six hours, audience members may come and go as they please once a ticket has been purchased. This performance was developed with assistance from WalesLab, National Theatre Wales artist development initiative. good cop bad cop have received funding from the Arts Council of Wales and are currently an artist in residence at Chapter Arts Centre. .......................... Company Background: good cop bad cop is a Welsh performance company drawing on its members' various fields of expertise: film, photography, dance, sound, visual art and live performance. John Rowley and Richard Huw Morgan, who make up good cop bad cop, created the company in 1995. Both were previously core members of Wales's influential experimental performance company Brith Gof and John is a regular collaborator with Forced Entertainment. The company's work, as well as reflecting these multiple influences, is often preoccupied with the relationship between performer, audience and environment, and frequently takes place in unconventional sites. good cop bad cop are current recipients of Arts Council Wales funding for their Theatre Production Development project, “Beating the Path”, a contemporary cross-media investigation of the life, works and legacy of Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, whose centenary is celebrated this year. They have also been awarded one of the prestigious DT100 commissions, funded by the Welsh Government, to celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas in 2014. In April 2013 they travel to Hamburg to perform in a booth at an itinerant fun fair. Richard Huw Morgan is an ex-Brith Gof core performer (1990-7, 15 productions), Pearson/Brookes performer (1999-2005, 7 productions). Co-director, with John Rowley, of Das Wunden (1992-4, 4 productions) and good cop bad cop (1994 to present, 30 productions) touring internationally with the support of Wales Arts International and British Council. National Theatre Wales “The Persians" (2010) as member of chorus, “Coriolan/us” (2012) as embedded cameraman. Devisor, co-producer and co-presenter (with John Rowley) of ‘Pitch’, the arts and culture programme for Cardiff and beyond, on Radio Cardiff (2011 - present). Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Major Award for sound-art project ‘Pharmakon - a sonic mapping of Wales’ (2006). Research fellow (2002-4) and lecturer (2004-6) in Time Based Practice at Cardiff School of Art & Design (currently Cardiff Metropolitan University) vocational research fellow in bilingual graphic design through the medium of Welsh at Swansea Metropolitan University (2006-7) and visiting lecturer at University of Glamorgan (2012). Performance director for blown magazine (2010-present). Exhibitor at Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (2004 - with Matt Cook, 2006, 2008 - good cop bad cop), contributor to Special Exhibition (2012 - good cop bad cop). Arts Council Wales national advisor (2002-2012). John Rowley has been working as a professional actor, theatre maker and artist for the past 20 years. In the 1990s he was a core member of the Welsh site-specific performance company, Brith Gof, involved in the creation of shows such as Pax, Haearn, DOA and Prydain (John, originally from Essex, is a Welsh learner). Since 2000 he has been touring the world as an associate performer with the highly acclaimed, Sheffield-based theatre company, Forced Entertainment. As a visual artist John has won commissions to make a number of short films, including works for Channel 4 and the BBC and has received several major awards from the Arts Council of Wales, including the prestigious Creative Wales Award. He has had visual art works exhibited at the Welsh National Eisteddfod. In 2010 and 2012, respectively, he performed in The Persians and Coriolan/us under the direction of Mike Pearson for the National Theatre of Wales. In early 2012, John was cast as nature-phobic Richard in Spirit of the Wood, a First Light, BFI-funded film with children from Betws Primary School. John has recently been working with Sean Tuan John on a new project, is about to start work on a new large-scale piece with Forced Entertainment and is soon to embark on his second book for children with a well known publisher. 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