Tuesday, May 25 14:00 pm - 16:00 pm

In 2019, a female parrot, an African grey named Petra, managed to place an online order through a virtual assistant. Thus, she added a number of miscellaneous items to the shopping list of the human who lives with her in Orlando (Florida, United States). Since then, the virtual assistant (Alexa), Petra and the human continue to communicate.

In She Was Called Petra, we can hear the voices of these three protagonists (with a few others) through a single speaker. Your words and sounds cause “ordered” images to appear in a search engine. Simultaneously, live videos of Asian and American beaches and African savannahs appear on screens and on mobile phones. In addition, requests made by Petra, played by a human, have been brought and placed on the ground.