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From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back

Venues across BirminghamAs Britain’s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll’s incredible rotating disintegrationThe phrase “two things can be true” is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it’s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of live

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‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes

In the choreographers’ new work, virtuosic movement and some green-screen magic unfurl the theatricality of high-stakes television interviewsIt appears the interviewer has got him on the ropes. “For the record, I did not take part in a pagan ceremony with minor members of the royal family in which we daubed ourselves in paint,” states the

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AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it

Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscapeThe disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence among artists and creatives remain real and consequential, and the language used by leading arts commentators is often apocalyptic: AI will

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The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – glitchy Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonVisual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer’s tech-heavy double billTechnology can sometimes seem to take on its own life and sideline the people it is nominally assisting. That tension, even conflict, is the subject of Mirror, a new duet by Alexander Whitley, who has good form with choreographic deployments of

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