Traffic Cam: Inside the Life of a Perfect Person

"PERFECTOCORP welcomes its esteemed panel of judges to the 68th annual Most Perfect Person competition. In today’s session, finalist Jack McManus will make their case to earn this title through displays of perfection across multiple metrics. Our patented Mindscape technology will give you unprecedented insight into how the thoughts and impulses of this candidate align with their words and actions. PLEASE NOTE...

"PERFECTOCORP welcomes its esteemed panel of judges to the 68th annual Most Perfect Person competition. In today’s session, finalist Jack McManus will make their case to earn this title through displays of perfection across multiple metrics. Our patented Mindscape technology will give you unprecedented insight into how the thoughts and impulses of this candidate align with their words and actions. PLEASE NOTE: PERFECTOCORP kindly requests no further questions or public speculation regarding AI project 08AU8991, nicknamed “Jack.” Please refer to our official press release for further information."

Join your fellow judges in witnessing Jack attempt to illustrate their perfection through a series of demonstrations, lectures, and challenges. Only you have the qualifications to determine their success, and your assessment will be integral to their fate in this competition. Equal parts comedic and incisive, Traffic Cam invites its audience to examine their complicity in processes of self-automation and begs the answer to an impossible question: how do we discover our truest selves?

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Traffic Cam: Inside the Life of a Perfect Person

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  • Tyler Rocío Ecoña: Traffic Cam: Inside the Life of a Perfect Person

    Immersive, playful, scathing, brilliant. With humor and eloquence, McManus' character operates a game show inviting audiences onstage to vote in a contest which soon evolves into a meditation on the surveillance state, the line between humanity/technology, & the impact of transmisogyny on the psyche.

    A beautifully queer exploration into technology, selfhood, performance, & authenticity. Can perfection truly ever be achieved? Should it be? Has woke AI gone too far? Produce this play immediately.

    Immersive, playful, scathing, brilliant. With humor and eloquence, McManus' character operates a game show inviting audiences onstage to vote in a contest which soon evolves into a meditation on the surveillance state, the line between humanity/technology, & the impact of transmisogyny on the psyche.

    A beautifully queer exploration into technology, selfhood, performance, & authenticity. Can perfection truly ever be achieved? Should it be? Has woke AI gone too far? Produce this play immediately.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Swarthmore College, Year 2024

Production History

  • Type Fringe, Organization Cannonball Festival, Year 2025

Awards

  • Immersive Performance Track
    Cannonball Festival
    Selection
    2025