Fantasy Plot Generator
Γεννήτωρ Φαντασιακής Πλοκής
by Angelo Plessas
Fantasy
Plot Generator is an ongoing project comprised by this website, a stage and a
series of performances. This website is the base of the project where
visitors invent character names and generate automatically a story with
the function of a programming code. This code “borrows” extracted texts
from different philosophical dialogues speaking about extreme concepts and social conditions, “remixing” them in a random way
and different plots take shape. During the course of different exhibitions
few of
these stories are “animated” by actors in the exhibition space
within a stage of special furniture and costumes. These perfomances also take the form of an archive of
fotonovelas that are distributed from here.
Actors:
Athens: Alkistis Poulopoulou, Aphroditi Kleovoulou, Athina Mathioudaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Electra Nikolouzou, Kostas Tsioukas, Maria Panourgia, Maria Tzani, Natasha Giannaraki, Nikos Maramathas, Yorgos Kyriakou.
Reims: Jean-Charles Amey, Cynthia Lefebvre, Marine Mane
Copenhagen: Sandra Virginia Bereza, Evangelos Lalos, Stanislava Sharankova
Texts picked from the following books:
Two Regimes of Madness, Gilles Deleuze
Politics of the very worst, Paul Virilio
Simulations, Jean Baudrillard
The Plague of Fantasies, Slavoj Zizek
We have never been Modern, Bruno Latour
The Conspiracy of Art, Jean Baudrillard
Fantasy Plot Generator book published by Automatic Books in 2013
Programming: Kernel
Programming assistance from Derek Clark's story generator www.the-elite.net
Special Thanks: The National Theatre of Greece, Frac Champagne- Ardenne , Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Ioanna Tsami