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Annie Dorsen
Annie Dorsen is a writer and director whose performances and installations explore the social, psychological, and epistemological impacts of machine-generated language. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her body of work in algorithmic theater.
Her most recent project, Prometheus Firebringer, a lecture-performance about the implications of generative AI, was presented Off-Broadway at Theatre for A New Audience in September 2023.
Previous algorithmic performances have been seen at numerous theaters and festivals world-wide, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), the Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah), KANAL - Centre Pompidou (Brussels), the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and Festival d’Automne (Paris).
She has contributed essays about art and technology for The Drama Review, Theatre Magazine, Etcetera, Frakcija, and Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), among others, and has taught at University of Chicago and Bard College.
She is a 2024 graduate of NYU Law School, where she focused on tech law and public policy.
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