Sunday, 31 March
Korzo (studio)

At once surreal, spellbinding and deeply alarming, ‘ULTRACHUNK’ is a new live improvisational duet between a classically-trained musician and her AI doppelganger. Over the course of a year, award-winning Irish vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe engaged in a daily ritual of performing solo improvisations in front of her webcam. Collecting the hours of footage on the other end, Turkish artist Memo Akten used the video and audio material to create and train an AI that can mimic the key components of Walshe’s identity – her voice and face. Taking the stage together at Rewire 2019 for the Dutch premiere, the original and the virtual Walshe sing, improvise, listen and respond to each other in real time as they render the Uncanny Valley in reality.