BLUR is a mixed-reality theater experience created by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg, co-produced by PHI Studio, Riverbed Theatre Ltd., and Onassis Culture, that merges live performance, motion capture, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence to stage a near-future world where cloning, genetic engineering, and de-extinction have become reality.
Following its world premiere at Taiwan's National Theater in 2025 and a run at Montreal's PHI Centre, BLUR makes its U.S. premiere at MAD Arts after being named an Official Selection of Venice Immersive at the Biennale di Venezia.Experienced by small groups over 45 minutes, a live performer's movements are transmitted in real time into a virtual set that audience members enter as avatars, encountering hybrid and AI-driven figures including Dolly, a human-animal hybrid.
"BLUR began as a question—one that lies at the heart of mythology, science and human longing," said co-director Craig Quintero. "As scientific advancements like cloning and resurrection biology become real, they challenge not only our relationship to death, but also our understanding of what it means to be human."
