The US duo Michael Rau and Michael Yates Crowley and the Berlin-based artist Janne Kummer are the new fellows who are filling the building with the wooded roof at Dortmund harbour with their visions of the theater of the future. Can artificial intelligence be used as a collaborator and live co-author in theater productions? Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau are exploring this question in their research work at the Academy for Theater and Digitality. The perception of different bodies in digital and analog space is the focus of Janne Kummer's research. Which digital bodies are perceived as human? Which bodies are stored and remembered?

The three new fellows will begin their work alongside the residency of two artists from the previous fellowship: Jorge Guevara is researching the perception of movement in virtual reality. Laura Waltz is dedicated to the design of living avatars via motion capturing (project: "A_live"). This marks the start of the ninth scholarship program funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation for the Academy for Theatre and Digitality.

As the sixth division of Theater Dortmund, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality is dedicated to artistic research, consulting, training and further education at the interface of theater and digital technologies.