2024Shanghai·Jing’an Modern Drama Valley is coming to an end. As an important section of Drama Valley, the Drama Forum always focuses on the construction goal of "International Jing'an, an Outstanding Urban District" and brings together influential experts from all walks of life to explore drama and the people's city, drama and the development of the times with forward-looking and professional thinking. Hot topics. On May 11, a forum with the theme of "Drama and City" and focusing on "Drama Art in the Intelligent Era: Innovation and Integration" was held at the Shanghai Theater Academy. Industry insiders discussed how artificial intelligence can help drama art and inherit and innovate. radiate new vitality.
Huang Changyong, President of the Shanghai Theater Academy, said that art and technology are essentially connected, with innovation at their core. Moving towards rationality, towards synthesis, towards technology, this is how Huang Changyong judges the future direction of drama. "In the history of drama development, most works have not escaped the control of the emotional range, but the new look of today's drama has obviously moved towards higher rationality." He cited the popular play of this year's Drama Valley, Canadian "theatre magician" Robert Le Pudge's "887" is an example. The work basically breaks away from traditional typical characters, actions and conflicts. At the same time, he also saw a more "free" creative method in many works. "Although drama as a comprehensive art is common sense, a new 'synthesis' has been born, which transcends traditional drama forms and is not fixed. , inconsistent, and difficult to define.”
The performance of Tezopoulos’ version of “Waiting for Godot” left a deep impression on Yi Tianfu, a professor at the Shanghai Theater Academy. “The work not only has the courage to break through the traditional framework in terms of artistic form, but also adopts... The novel narrative techniques and technical means also touch the pain points of contemporary society and the complex aspects of human nature in a deeper way through unique perspectives and profound philosophical thinking. "Yi Tianfu proposed that innovation and AI technology cannot be simply drawn together. Equal sign, "Drama is about the creation of beautiful and meaningful forms. It needs to accommodate today's concepts, but without a profound experience of social life and a profound pursuit of the meaning of life, true innovation cannot be achieved."
Designed by Tongji University Associate Professor Zhang Yinan of the College of Creative Arts believes that a hundred years ago, the German Bauhaus school proposed the concept of "total theater" that integrates architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, and music. The huge energy contained in it to break through professional barriers can be used in the current smart era. Get a more powerful release. In recent years, the team from the School of Design and Innovation of Tongji University has created the new media drama "Clone·Yuanqi", Wan Jieni's piano and digital impression "Fifteen Degrees", and collaborated with the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe "Man Song Xing", etc., demonstrating the integration of Cross-media stage interpretation of media design thinking and intelligent technology.
Professor Yao Kougen of the Shanghai Theater Academy said that many types of artificial intelligence screenwriting tools have emerged at home and abroad, which can quickly generate script drafts, automatically optimize plots, characters and dialogues, and complete script evaluation, thereby expanding the horizons of drama creators and improving Increase creativity and improve efficiency. However, screenwriters in the AI era also face new problems, such as innovation capabilities and cross-media narrative challenges. More human-machine training is needed to solve the bottleneck of drama creation development and optimize and improve quality.
Tsinghua University teacher Chen Hui elaborated on the evolution and iterative upgrade of the role of AI in stage art. Dramatists have been pursuing technology since ancient times. Ancient Greek automatic theaters incorporated automatic art devices. In the 21st century, especially after 2010, with breakthroughs in machine learning and deep learning, AI can not only imitate existing art forms , and can also create new works of art through large models, transforming from auxiliary tools to active participants and co-creators. The autonomy, interactivity, and adaptability of "intelligent bodies" open up infinite possibilities for the integration and symbiosis of stage art and high-tech.
He Han, a teacher at Communication University of China, pointed out that in the development process of traditional Chinese opera, it has never refused the participation of new technologies and new media, as well as the collision and mutual learning of other art forms, and has incorporated them into artistic creation with an inclusive attitude. , dissemination, and inheritance in all aspects.The key to empowering traditional opera with smart technology is to fully respect the lyrical, freehand, virtual and other artistic characteristics of this art form itself; to focus on promoting communication through technical means and realizing interactive and embodied emotions. experience, and ultimately achieve effective empathy communication.
This forum also invites front-line practitioners in the industry to discuss. The large-space immersive exploration project "The Lost Pharaoh" was previously stationed at HKRI Taikoo Hui and was loved by a large number of citizens and tourists. Lin Li, director and general manager of Luwa Cultural Communication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., said that as the world's leading metaverse interactive content, "The Lost Pharaoh" provides new scenes, new consumption, and new forms, fully integrating art, technology, and humanities. Combined together, it can better meet the market's huge demand for new cultural tourism, and stimulate and promote cultural tourism and large consumption in nearby business districts.
He Chuan, vice president of Xianliang Film and Television Production (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and virtual production director, introduced three types of digital people/virtual people, namely cartoon images, beautiful images, and hyper-realistic images. Compared with real actors, digital virtual humans have highly customized appearance, strong comprehensive strength, and clear IP rights. However, due to the lack of real-time performance, consistency, and lack of understanding of performances, it is currently difficult for AI to quickly serve stage performances, and future exploration and practice are still needed. .
Chen Jun, director of the Department of Drama Literature at Shanghai Theater Academy, said in his summary that the future is here and dramatists cannot avoid the general trend of technological development, but must adapt, research, apply and lead, so that AI technology can become a factor in promoting the development of drama art and Progressive new productive forces.
Author: Wang Xiaoli
Text: Wang Xiaoli Pictures: Pictures provided by the organizer Editor: Jiang Fang Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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