Cyborg Witch Theatre is a website where intersectional identity is constructed and performed, through the metaphor of a theatre. Coded interactions allow the user to engage with cyborg witch strategies of speech and gesture as spell and ritual, in a process of becoming.
Materialising an intersection of queerness and Chinese Australian identity, users are invited to play on this stage as a performer, observer and voyeur. Speech is explored with machine learning generated poetry, and activated with speech recognition. In another interaction, gesture is used to draw upon the queer performativity of Chinese opera, and made responsive through motion tracking. These two scenes explore identity as a site of possibility, through cyborg witch strategies of the body.
Materialising an intersection of queerness and Chinese Australian identity, users are invited to play on this stage as a performer, observer and voyeur. Speech is explored with machine learning generated poetry, and activated with speech recognition. In another interaction, gesture is used to draw upon the queer performativity of Chinese opera, and made responsive through motion tracking. These two scenes explore identity as a site of possibility, through cyborg witch strategies of the body.