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title: How to Make a Baby - Halim Madi
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/works/how-to-make-a-baby-2026/
description: How to Make a Baby, a participatory computer theater performance set in 2036. Premiered at tiat in San Francisco, re-performed with Ana Maria Caballero.
generated: 2026-09-06
---

# How to Make a Baby

computer theater

Jul 25, '26 · tiat, San Francisco · re-performed Aug 11, '26

- [Premiere ↗](https://luma.com/howbaby)
- [Re-performance ↗](https://luma.com/technoretropoet)

![How to Make a Baby at tiat, San Francisco: Halim performs at the microphone while his own face is projected large behind him.](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/how-to-make-a-baby/featured.jpg)

*How to Make a Baby* is a participatory computer theater performance set in 2036. Prop 43 wants the childfree taxed to fund elder care, and a visionary founder arrives with a solution, hidden motives, and an invitation for everyone - including the audience. Nobody watches from outside the play: the room votes, argues, and signs on, and the outcome is co-created with whoever showed up. It premiered at [tiat](https://luma.com/howbaby) in San Francisco on July 25, 2026.

On August 11, 2026 the piece came back to tiat: a re-performance with the poet [Ana María Caballero](https://luma.com/technoretropoet), staged as part of Techno Retro Poetics, an evening of analog and multimedia readings the two of us shared. The founder's pitch lands differently when a second voice is in the room to answer it.

![The title card HOW TO MAKE A BABY projected over the stage at tiat, Halim at the microphone and the audience in the foreground.](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/how-to-make-a-baby/stage-audience.jpg)

![Halim raises a hand at the end of the performance as the credits scroll on the projection behind him.](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/how-to-make-a-baby/credits.jpg)

photographs by samuel zuniga