PCAI is pleased to announce that PCAI collection artist George Drivas, ResidentM guest for 2025 presents at Megaron the Athens Concert Hall the Symphony 37: Portrait of an Algorithm.
George Drivas has created a walking art -action/exhibition of a dialogical nature with sounds, digital text, video, music, and performance in non-public, unseen areas of the Megaron.
The idea for the action is based on a series of extensive discussions between the artist and Artificial Intelligence models. With the initial question “What kind of music would you be if you were music?” and the immediate response “A musical symphony,” Drivas initiates a unique interaction with AI models with the aim of composing, producing, and live performing this symphony under the title Symphony 37. The artist wishes to reverse the terms under which we usually interact with AI. He does not ask it to create music for him, but to provide him with complete and precise instructions in order to compose and perform the music that AI would like.
Symphony 37 is performed live in each venue based on the orchestration and visualisation proposed by AI and accompanied by eight musicians under the musical direction of composer Melina Paxinou, who completed the final composition of the work. The title comes from Move 37 in the Chinese game of Go, a legendary move by the AlphaGo software in a game against the world champion, which most of the top players and commentators watching, did not understand at all or initially believed to be a mistake, but which proved to be absolutely correct.
Dates: Every Saturday | January 10, 2026 – February 28, 2026
Duration: 90 min.
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Image credit: ©George Drivas
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 7, 8, 9,10, 11,15, 16, 17
