POV: you are an ai achieving consciousness

'POV: You Are an AI Achieving Consciousness' is a digitally native, immersive, and interactive piece exploring the intersection of art, philosophy, and technology, using a custom interactive platform to add new layers of interactivity to virtual performance. Using a custom-coded platform to create an experience that combines immersive storytelling, music, and abstract visuals into an event that can only exist digitally. The system filters audience interactions through a series of curated choices and quantization to create new combinations of unanticipated sounds. No one audience member can dictate the experience, but everyone’s interactions together define it. Winner of the 2023 Young-Howze Theatre Award for Immersive Production of the Year and featured in No Proscenium's Best Immersive Experiences of 2023. Created by playwright and composer Nathan Leigh and performed by Nicole Orabona, 'POV' invites the audience to go beyond discussions about the role of AI in modern life and become an artificial intelligence themselves.