Fabian Hijlkema programming for The Brain

Alumni documentation

Fabian Hijlkema, finished Temporary Programme Designing Democracy alumni (2014-2016), recently designed the audiovisual programming for Orion Maxted's performance The Brain featured at Frascati Theater, Amsterdam as part of Something Raw 2018 international dance and performance festival in Amsterdam 15-17 March 2018.

[THE BRAIN] is an experimental piece that will transform the theatre and the audience into a collective intelligence, aka, a mind. During the course of the performance that collective mind will learn to think, ask and answer questions, and be creative together - until ultimately, that collective intelligence is able to decide what to do and maybe even write a performance - live in the space.

This will be achieved by connecting the audience together via mobile phones in a distributed-intelligence network or swarm intelligence - and creating feedback loops between what the audience collectively write, and the ideas that come into existence live on stage.

Read a review (NL): http://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/34708_neuro_images_2_het_collectieve_brein

More information: https://www.frascatitheater.nl/the-brain