From identity theft to digital surveillance, we are increasingly the sum of our recorded information. What power does that gives us? What does it take away? And how might we hang onto our humanity? Super Vision is the kind of high-tech performance that the Walker’s new theater, fortified with futuristic AV muscle, was designed to showcase. For this, its most robust theater-meets-video project to date, the Walker commissioned the Builders Association, a New York-based troupe known for making live theater with recorded images and produced sound. With the aid of Dbox, a visual arts studio specializing in 3D wizardry, the Builders will make zeros and ones sparkle, while pondering how data imprints might be manipulated in this post-Patriot Act world. 612-375-7600; www.walkerart.org
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