Jlin is an electronic producer who has gained a reputation for pushing the limits of footwork, the Chicagoland dance tradition in which she traces her origins. While her records have dabbled in experimental and IDM directions, Jlin has broken new ground by translating Mozart’s famous Requiem in D minor into a footwork extravaganza for Macarthur genius choreographer Kyle Abraham’s dance company AIM. The black box legend’s take on one of Mozart’s more opaque works promises to be a fascinating meeting of cultural traditions, both classical and contemporary, to explore themes of ritual, mourning, and rebirth.

Requiem
Sat, 7:30pm, $32+
Memorial Auditorium, Palo Alto

Three decades after his death, Stanford Live brings Robert Mapplethorpe’s legendary photographs back to life. Created by composer (and guitarist for The National) Bryce Dessner, librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle and director Kaneza Schaal, Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) “explores the origins and impact of Mapplethorpe’s controversial photography.” A multimedia event, the evening features the vocal group Roomful of Teeth and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as the poetry of Patti Smith and Essex Hemphill. Smith’s book about her relationship with Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2010. Admission is $10 for students.

Triptych
Thu, 7:30pm, $28+
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford

Where is AI taking human agency and democracy? It’s not a question for Alexa. Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, will moderate a conversation between Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor of computer science, and Yuval Noah Harari, a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Li, a former vice president for Google Cloud, has been identified as a top mind in AI by Forbes; he co-created ImageNet, changing the face of deep learning. Harari, a historian and author from Israel, counts Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as fans. Together the three will ruminate upon “The Coming AI Upheaval.”

AI Upheaval
Mon, 7pm, Free
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford