Hannah Silva
Hannah Silva is a writer and performer at the vanguard of innovative and interdisciplinary research into the creative potential and implications of generative AI.
Silva has been working with technology as a creative tool for two decades and has an international reputation as a sound poet. ‘Talk in a bit’ (Humankind Records) was included in the Wire’s Top 25 Albums of 2018.
‘An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love’ for BBC Radio 4 starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm, a memoir on queer parenting and love written in conversation with a GPT algorithm and a toddler. Silva has authored seven other plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4, won the Tinniswood Award for best script and numerous placements in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Silva holds a PhD in the analysis of poetry in performance and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University. She/they.
Hannah Silva is a writer and performer at the vanguard of innovative and interdisciplinary research into the creative potential and implications of generative AI.
Silva has been working with technology as a creative tool for two decades and has an international reputation as a sound poet. ‘Talk in a bit’ (Humankind Records) was included in the Wire’s Top 25 Albums of 2018.
‘An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love’ for BBC Radio 4 starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm, a memoir on queer parenting and love written in conversation with a GPT algorithm and a toddler. Silva has authored seven other plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4, won the Tinniswood Award for best script and numerous placements in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Silva holds a PhD in the analysis of poetry in performance and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University. She/they.
Hannah breaks all the rules in order to refresh our minds. No writer I know in drama is as brave or as vulnerable. She talks to another hinterland of the mind. She writes like she is climbing a mountain naked ... an important new talent
This dense, complex, intelligent hour ... celebrates the slipperiness of words
Silva uses techniques like cut-up and collage, sound poetry and physical theatre to create something that's unique but nods to older forms like shamanism, pre-religious ceremonies, Dadaism, and the kind of games that children play with language
A bold and inventive meditation on the complexities of motherhood. I loved it.
The vocal acrobatics of musician and writer Hannah Silva test the physical limits of language
A work worthy to stand beside classics of queer parenting by Maggie Nelson and Gail McConnell… about art, family and love.