Biography
Dr. Maja Lasić is an Associate Professor teaching at the University of Mostar and the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied Croatian language and literature and dramatic arts and earned her PhD at the University of Zagreb. Her professional work spans academic teaching, acting, theatre direction, and film production. She has worked with theatres in Mostar and Naples and participated in international film productions. She served as Artistic Director of the Mostar Film Festival and has received awards for film production. Her scholarly publications include works on Croatian drama, theatre, interpretation, and intermediality.
Conference contributions 1
AI IN THEATRE
A Tool or a Transformation of the Performance Process?
This paper examines whether artificial intelligence fundamentally changes the theatrical process or remains primarily a tool. Through an analysis of dramaturgical research, rehearsals, and performance, drawing on digitally available examples such as Rimini Protokoll’s Uncanny Valley and THEaiTRE projects available on YouTube, the paper argues that AI is redefining the performance process without taking over performance itself. Unable to assume the risk of error or achieve embodied presence, AI remains a “prompter in the cloud”: it can optimise preparation, while the authentic theatrical act remains inseparable from the living body and the spoken word on stage.