The main theme of the Salzburg Landestheater's new program is “Humans control machines.” - some of the photos were created at the Salzburh Airport
The theater's press office asked the airport's press office if they would be interested in serving as a backdrop for photos for the new program.
In total, the printed version of the program features the U2 (the first page inside the program) plus the following page, the U4 (the last page on the cover of the program), and 11 In total, the U2 (the first page inside the program) plus the following page, the U4 (the last page on the cover of the program), and 11 pages within the program were used for the printed version of the program, featuring motifs created at the airport. Specifically, images for the cover were taken from the opera (Don Giovanni), musical (Priscilla), drama (Untersberg, Die Tore von Gaza, Homo Faber, Triage, Ballhaus, Amerika, Der Fremde) and Junges Land (Das Kleine Gespenst) sections. "Art, culture, education, and theater are important and have a long tradition. This tradition is also important to the airport. Incidentally, the photo shoots at the airport were also a lot of fun for our team, and the results are impressive," said airport manager Bettina Ganghofer.
The question posed by the creative minds of the theater community—have machines already taken over humanity?—runs through the entire grogram. We all know that our everyday lives are shaped by constant confrontation with machines, be they cars, computers, or simply the ubiquitous cell phone, which with its countless functions has become an indispensable companion, recently enhanced by sophisticated adaptive artificial intelligence programs. The polarity between autonomous personality and machine-controlled humans has been taken up by the Landestheater team as an artistic field of research for the coming season.
