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Louise Coetzer’s work autoplay — Africa’s first AI opera — explores the intersection between human creativity and machine learning and where it could lead, with a soundscape featuring Inge Beckmann.
AI OPERA

Dancing with the machine: autoplay and the future of AI-driven art

Louise Coetzer flirted with the enemy to create experimental dance-opera autoplay. But her message is one of resistance

  • Keith Bain
6 min read
Tin Bucket Drum by Neil Coppen is one of the works shown on the online platform South African Theatre on Demand, which was launched in June. (Val Adamson)
AMY LOUISE WILSON

Is online the new home for theatre?

Moving to digital platforms has enabled theatre to survive, but audiences have been slow to follow

  • Atiyyah Khan
7 min read