didn't he too well by photography. as a latest project. but 1st the biggest book fair in the world is underway in germany's business capital frankfurt. publishes journalists and creative people from around the world networking negotiating deals as we speak and one of the big talking points there and indeed in the literary weld as a whole is not surprisingly new technology and its application and list refold is more on the subject stuffing belin. if you turn him in berlin is a newly opened center for questions of the future here we need to write. the indian born speculative fiction author mimi mondo from new york. and anne cotton who lives in berlin and vienna they're both interested in the future of writing and fascinated by the new possibilities presented by artificial intelligence this is

a. fantastic 1st of all it's a fantastically amusing field because it's an idea that's been around since at least frankenstein it comes up again and again and it somehow draws in all kinds of topics and phantasms that are swirling around. but what happens when machines become artists and authors do they simply imitate the works with which they've been programmed how innovative art for instance poems written by normal networks. laughs can write poetry and the thing is because poetry is already a little abstract off so the neural net sporty often reads like a real course and. where is the poetry coming from then why does that poetry make sense if a machine has written that woman and you still get feelings for a man then where where is the soul that's creating that the new age i authors challenge us in our romantic notions of true genius does a sensitive artist soul potentially reside in the machine or will we have to say

goodbye to all that what is it so it is a very politically loaded question because it's one of the things that the colonizers the christians once and used against slaves and black people and people of other communities saying that it's ok to treat these people like animals because they don't have a so legally the christian has a soul and cotton goes so far as to dream of a post human or stage one in which everything human has become superfluous apostolos example post humanism is interesting because i like imagining that the world continues to exist. and is very beautiful and wonderful without people and then it's absolutely not the end of the story that's perhaps my favorite thing to imagine. but if the world where one day is an cut imagines it then she as a human author would no longer exist. but a fallen founder of the arts plus festival at the frankfurt book fair thinks that

scenario is far fetched what machine and why should machines act artistically when there are no humans to be interested in what they do i should like you for never mind the fact that it's an utterly awful notion which i don't even want to contemplate no i believe that sort of thing is not likely in the near future because ai strength is most in comparing data it's not good at making art from all the arts plus festival at the frankfurt book fair features an idea of what a post-apocalyptic future could look like the new york artists collective 3 legged dog shows people in an underground complex subject to the whims of artificial intelligence but the scenario too is the product of human imagination digital technology remains an area in which creative people explore their ideas. now it's become quite clear in research is that we humans produce too much plastic waste oceans being polluted to the extent that when we fish nowadays it's said there's a certain amount of plastic mites micro particles in the fish fighting ready but

it's also frightening how much plastic the average home uses every year french photographer. has illustrated this all too well and his latest project. kitchen doesn't commonly serve as an photographer set unless that photographer is on tone suppressing for several years the frenchman has been staging shots using packaging waste he got the idea when he saw an overflowing trash can go off a cliff you know if you get so i got to take out the trash ones and then i realized just how much packaging waste i actually produce astronomical amounts and we just throw everything in the bin we don't even think about the masses of waste that accumulate over a long period of time pushing it in on a drip. that was the starting point for the series $365.00 unpacked a reference to the 365 kilograms of trash per capita produced in france each year

that the city collected the packaging all of it recyclable materials his friends helped collect to over the course of 4 years. 50 years to keep she walked through i start everything at home but after 4 years i was almost drowning in packaging. it was really were breaking when i finally started the work because i had accumulated nearly 70 cubic metres of packaging waste and was confronted with this ballast every day just it led to me changing my own buying habits. i felt it was more all that effort was aimed at raising awareness by making visible what we try to avoid seeing 1st at passy a former graffiti artist photography is the ideal medium for his purposes. and attitudes towards environmental protection are already changing the banks of the river sending parents which used to be a main road is now a vehicle free zone bicycles and scooters dominate the scene on tons of course he

is happy to see that he's currently working on a series of portraits of cyclists he wants to encourage people to leave their cars at home than to stop tossing plastic bags into the same. indeed joining me as i said earlier one of the greatest lyric tennis around today simon here goob welcome to the show you'll here in berlin performing at the door open in common last night for another performance in a in a week's time it was so time to come on t.v. . i believe you stuff it off life musical life as a violinist coming from a family who won music a little bit you started playing the violin what made you change to. singing i think a concert just a simple concert of 3 men singing the 3 men the 3 tenors of this new soul the 3

tenors and i designed it to be a tiger a really i think i'm a product of 3 tenors without them for sure oh no i don't you feel the level of actually i should think there are people who've done that anyway without further ado you've just come from los angeles where 2 weeks ago you were playing rodolfo in la boy let's just hear a short clip from that production right now. 6 . was. i was. was. the.

i think. that looks like a lot of fun and i i saw that it was directed by i say our barry kosky is very cost is the head of the commercial over here but lynn we like you very much here in berlin and he's won all the prizes what was it like to work with him he's a great director i mean it's been wonderful production is a cop production with oprah can make and i mean i didn't see the production here in berlin but i did the brain and l.a.

and very intelligent production and working with is such an intelligent idea from the director who you know doing boy am from many years now directors have quite difficulty to find something new and that's you need someone genius to find a new new direction how to direct a oprah like blam where everybody has seen and everybody knows so that's the point the big boy and for me that when you find that kind of director who can tell you something new and that's what the case with. because i mean people in the opera world not people all around the world now another man i want to mention who was a great mentor of yours indeed when you were still a student pavarotti sort of took you all tell us about. i mean i am a lucky person that for that reason because you never know i'm coming from albania i was 19 and i made the greatest tenor amber and he's teaching me for 7 years so an

oval as a rules that i'm already a saint have already prepared with him so yeah i'm but what he coached you in the roles. you've windows of memory how how you can do better because he was from his heart teaching too young to a young guy and that's why i really remember and i'm very lucky that another person people not from the opera world the is woody allen many of them know that he's directed off and you indeed appeared in opera in los angeles with he directed that must be a very different direction of course and for that time i was it was my debut in america and then in l.a. oprah so it was very interesting to work with a movie director and it was his 1st time doing oprah so it's quite a lot of emotion there i think at the end of the production we're allies that i was

not anymore over a single quotes to actors so that's what woody allen dave in that production and it is a lot of different things i mean i wonder what you like i know the life of an opera singer is hot of them people would imagine you'd all planes on whatever travelling and then you've got to look after your voice and different venues and everything what is it that is it about the offer that what's the special thing for you. i mean something be inside me is something that you have. i'm always saying that it's not a job for anyone you've got to have something that they have the corage to go front of everybody and reach those high notes and we don't be scared of that and this is something that i can explain with a war it's like i don't know i have it and it's like it's something that you have or know of but it's nice to ask sided thank you very much for coming in a present day we're not going to go there without hearing you sing again that's it

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