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Karl Heinz Jeron is a trained painter, who always has been interested in social issues and things from popular culture. He started painting in Munich in the early eighties and at the same time he started working with computers more or less. After some years he moved to Berlin and it was there he discovered this great scene which already was involved in the internet of the late eighties. During the late nineties he found that building cheap robots is a good way to replace real actors in performances more or less, and this led him into robotics.

In the end of October Vive Les Robots! met him in the South German City Augsburg during the Lab30 venue to a talk on his forthcoming project Hermes Opera, which is a mobile phone opera, where robots will perform in all four acts.

At that time, he had build the robots, made test with the singing and acting things, putting them on stage, trying to find the proper stage design, plus finished the libretto for act one. And later on in December Karl Heinz Jeron send this video, which shows where he is in the creative process now.

He doubt he'll have a finished version in spring 2012, but there should be a presentable version at that time. He will work the whole year on the whole thing, together with the composers Christian Rentschler and Robert Jähnert.

In this case study on Hermes Opera Karl Heinz Jeron will presents his thoughts on the up to 45 minutes long play during the next four articles.

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[image source: Karl Heinz Jeron]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]