Live Co-Created
AI-Generated Performance
The audience interacts with AI.
The AI generates the script.
The script is performed live.
Whatsoever Productions
Amanda Tkaczyk
Why Group Prompt?
To explore how an audience can co-create live performance in real time
To experiment with human-AI collaboration in a creative setting
To witness an Echoborg - human whose speech or actions are controlled by artificial intelligence
To reflect on our dependence on technology
To highlight that in society of artificial intelligence: we are all new at this
To celebrate the joy of spontaneous, unscripted, co-created non-sense
Note: Our performances this summer at Hamilton Fringe Festival are under 20 minutes.
Given the unpredictable nature of the audience, the group prompts, & AI-generated script, all shows will be 18+.
When you arrive, you will get a private link to an AI agent where you can send anonymous prompts, interact, and engage (More details in July)
AI agent will generate a script based on the group prompt
Performer will hear the script on a headset and will perform it (Link to the live transcription will be available)
If it’s funny, it’s funny. If it’s sad, it’s sad. If it’s weird, it’s weird.
Whatsoever it is, it is something special because you, the audience, the performer, and the AI agent co-created.
How will it work?
Who is the creator?
Amanda Tkaczyk (B 1989, Hamilton, On) is a BIPOC emerging interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of grief, belonging, and spontaneity. Amanda has had exhibitions and performances at venues including: Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Cambridge Centre for the Arts, and the Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON). She is an award-winning educator with nearly 20 years of experience facilitating workshops. She hosts events on privacy & artificial intelligence for community, classroom, and corporate groups. Amanda’s practice is rooted in co-creation and curating experiences for meaningful engagement. She has a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence (Queen’s University, 2021) and completed her bachelors degree in Psychology (University of Waterloo, 2012). She is also an Expressive Arts Practitioner with the Ontario Association of Expressive Arts Therapists. In Fall 2025, her short play Cyrano 2025, a slam poetry re-imagining of Cyrano de Bergerac with AI-enabled romance, will premiere at the Grand River Arts Festival.
Who are the performers?
We don’t know yet!
To reduce the emotional labour, bias, and barriers in traditional casting and to open the stage for individuals who typically would lack access, we are trying an experiment: Amanda will be casting performers randomly. Each lottery selected performer will do a solo show of an AI-generated script in real-time.
No headshots. No audition. No experience necessary. The performers will be cast by lottery.
Details coming soon for lottery in early June.
Performances
RINGSIDE
324 James St. N (alley entrance)
Hamilton, ON
Thursday July 17, 7:45pm
Friday July 18, 7:00pm
Saturday July 19, 5:15pm *Mask Mandatory
Thursday July 24, 9:15pm
Friday July 25, 8:30pm
Saturday July 26, 6:45pm
Summer 2025 artist talks dates to be announced.