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Prometheus Firebringer
about the artist
Annie Dorsen
Annie Dorsen is a theater director working at the intersection of algorithmic art and live performance. Her most recent project, Prometheus Firebringer, premiered at Bryn Mawr College in January 2023, and had a New York premiere at The Chocolate Factory in May, co-produced by New York Live Arts and MAX Media Art Xploration. The piece then moved Off-Broadway to Theater for A New Audience in Fall 2023.
Previous algorithmic performances include Infinite Sun, an algorithmic sound installation commissioned by the Sharjah Biennial 14 (2019), The Great Outdoors (2017), Yesterday Tomorrow (2015), A Piece of Work (2013), Spokaoke (2012), and Hello Hi There (2010). These pieces have been presented at numerous theatres and festivals world-wide, including at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), the steirischer herbst festival (Graz), the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and Festival d’Automne (Paris).
A retrospective of Annie Dorsen’s algorithmic work was presented in 2022, at Bryn Mawr College with major support by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. The publication Algorithmic Theater: Essays and Dialogues, 2012-2022 was created as a literary companion to the event, collecting a decade of writings by and about Dorsen, including dialogues with artistic collaborators in addition to provocative essays on theater and technology.
She has taught at University of Chicago and Bard College, and been a frequent guest lecturer at numerous universities and art schools in the US and abroad.
Dorsen is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spalding Gray Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award, and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
She recently graduated from NYU School of Law, with a focus on tech policy and civil rights.
cast & creative team
Writer/Director/Performer: Annie Dorsen
Sound Design: Ian Douglas-Moore
Video and Systems Design: Ryan Holsopple
Lighting Design / Technical Direction: Ruth Waldeyer
Software design and Programming: Sukanya Aneja
Voice Prints: Okwui Okpokwasili, Livia Reiner
3D Artist: Harry Kleeman
Dramaturgy: Tom Sellar
Producer: Natasha Katerinopoulos
credits
Exhibition Curator: Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Performance Program Curators: Katy Dammers, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, and Edgar Miramontes
Assistant Curator: Talia Heiman
Technical Director: Adam Matthew
Exhibition Designer: Adalberto Charvel
Graphic Designer: Ella Gold
Publication: REDCAT/East of Borneo
Project Director: Joao Ribas
Original support for Prometheus Firebringer was provided to Bryn Mawr College by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia. Prometheus Firebringer is supported in part by commissions from New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency Program with additional support from Partners for New Performance, and Media Art Xploration’s MAXmachina laboratory, funded in part by Science Sandbox. The piece was developed with the support of the Eureka Commissions program created by Onassis Foundation, and the Mercury Store.