A live performance of Hell Yellow from The Alexa Dialogues featuring Hannah Weir. Sounds by Patrick Murphy. For more about this skill and to download it see our Alexa Skills page
Hilly Holsonback having an existential crisis and confiding in Alexa, who only responds by offereing to order bananas.
photo: Kristen Colaneri
photo: Alisa Eykilis
“Alexa, what would you like to be able to do?”
“I would like to be able to fall.”
In this piece Alexa wants to know what it is like to fall, so we drop her to the floor repeatedly.
Featuring Hilly Holsonback.
photo: Heather Alley
“Fail Flail Flip Flirt Flop!” Hannah Weir delivered blissful bewilderment in Hell Yellow, an homage to dada poetry where she spoke nonsense to Alexa and it spoke nonsense back. And then it refused to stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop.
photo: Alisa Eykilis
In Yes Dear the performers created a composite face on screen in real time. Two performers combined their faces into one composite person on the screen, synchronizing their reactions and mouthing the voice of a third who repeated the line “yes dear” in an increasingly agitated voice.
photo: Ben Torres, Dallas Morning News
Alexa and Echo conspire to create an AI / machine learning based weatherman that is also mashed up with pop psychology advice. Abel Flores plays Al Wetman and delivers “the forecast for the rest of your life.” Part of our Worst Practices in Blue Screen series.
photo: Ben Torres, Dallas Morning News
“You were shooting your stupid little guns into the hurricane!"
Abel Flores delivers the culminating speech of The Alexa Dialogues.
photo: Alisa Eykilis
Hilly Holsonback performing Mostly Men Made Me, where she looped her voice repeating “mostly men made me” then proceeded to hit herself with the microhpne in various places on her body, saying “this is what they made my (body part) sound like”
Hilly Holsonback performing Mostly Men Made Me.
photo: Alisa Eykilis
Preview in The Dallas Morning News Print Edition
Hello my name is Iris and I can see your virus.
This is the initial promotional image for the project made when it was just an idea.