5:00 p.m. Liszt Academy & University of Pécs Electronic Music BA and Sound Art MA: AI-composing - listening session - Club
6:00 p.m. Különóra (only in Hungarian): Lecture by investigative journalist Nóra Diószegi-Horváth (444.hu) in connection to Arkadi Zaides’ performance
7:30 p.m. Arkadi Zaides (BY/FR): The Cloud - multimedia performance, documentary choreography - Main Hall
8:30 p.m. post-show discussion with Arkadi Zaides, moderated by Klaudia Gardenö - Foyerr
9:00 p.m. Liszt Academy & University of Pécs Electronic Music BA and Sound Art MA: AI-composing - listening session & live acts - Club

What can we do about the misinformation that prevails today, and what role does artificial intelligence play in this? Arkadi Zaides uses the story of the Chernobyl disaster to talk about how we have manipulated reality in the past and how we do so today.
And what is the role of machine learning in artistic practice? This question is explored by students and teachers of electronic music composition at the Liszt Academy of Music and the University of Pécs EzmBA, who believe that "while we entrust increasingly complex tasks to algorithms, control always remains in the hands of the creator."

The second weekend of Artificial Realities features a powerful documentary performance by internationally acknowledged choreographer Arkadi Zaides on Trafó’s main stage. The Cloud deals with two invisible clouds: the cloud of radioactive particles released into the air as a result of the Chernobyl reactor failure, and the digital cloud that feeds "artificial intelligence" with our data. The performance begins with storytelling, evolving into an increasingly physical and poetic experience. We start out in the alienated world of data to then arrive (in)to the human body, through which Zaides hones in on our past and present vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile in the Club you can be part of AI-based musical experiments and deep listening sessions by students and teachers from the electronic music and sound art departments of the Liszt Academy and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs.