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It’s another jam-packed week here in immersive-land as All Hallow’s Eve edges closer and closer. The wonderful folks at Meow Wolf announced a one night screening of their documentary Meow Wolf: Origin Story in theaters across the country in November.
The NoPro writers went all over the place over the past week, from hyper-reality to the ballet to modern folk tales to 1980s action adventures to inside a writer’s mind. Plus, some amazing Immersive Design Summit news! All that and more, below.
By the way, No Proscenium has published 27 reviews and features since October 1st thanks to the efforts of Amanda Schuckman, Kevin Gossett, Edward Mylechreest, Lauren Bello, Brian Resler, Asya Gorovits, Leah Ableson, and Shelley Snyder.
IMMERSIVE DESIGN SUMMIT NEWS
We’re thrilled to announce that the next set of speakers at the Immersive Design Summit in 2019 will include Stephanie Riggs, a former Disney Imagineer and the current Experiential Creative Director for Refinery29; Johanna Koljonen, CEO of Participation Design Agency and co-founder of Alibis for Interaction and Nordic Larp Talks; and Ida C. Benedetto, co-creator of the Night Heron Speakeasy and author of Patterns of Transformation.
Applications to attend the 2019 Immersive Design Summit are open through November 18, 11:59pm Pacific Time. Partial and full scholarships are available!
Stay in touch! We’ll have even more videos from the first Immersive Design Summit on YouTube in the coming weeks. Don’t forget to like and subscribe! Be sure to follow @designimmersive on Twitter and Instagram for the latest announcements! There’s so much more to come!
Want to know what the IDS is like? Here’s game/escape room designer, and author, Laura E. Hall’s talk from the 2018 Immersive Design Summit:
The Immersive Design Summit is a co-production of First Person Travel, Epic Immersive, and No Proscenium.
ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Kathryn Yu moderates and This Is Not A Theatre Company’s Erin Mee is the featured guest in this talkback session for Cafe Play recorded on September 30th, 2018.
Featuring guest appearances by the cast of the show, Alyssa Kim, Christy Casey, and Andrew Hoepfner.
Plus: Noah rambles a bit about his recent trip to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Atlanta: Our Walk to Healing
DC: The Fever
Denver: Denver Film Festival Virtual Reality & Immersive Experiences
Lansing, MI: Framing Device
Los Angeles: Delusion: The Blue Blade (Extension, Spring Season); Art at the Rendon // Stories
National: Meow Wolf: Origin Story
New Orleans: Promised Estates
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
Explore The Strangeness of Being with ‘Inside the Wild Heart’ (The NoPro Review)The surreal sandbox show by Group.BR about Clarice Lispector returnsnoproscenium.comThe Intimate ‘Snow Fridge: Halloween Edition’ is a Spa for the Soul (A NoPro Second Look)NoPro contributor Lauren Bello returns to the Hollywood Fringe favoritenoproscenium.comRewind Virtually to the Past with ‘Cycles’ (Review)Disney Animation treads familiar ground in their first virtual reality shortnoproscenium.comTime Is Of The Essence — ‘Delusion: The Blue Blade’ (The NoPro Review)The most ambitious edition of LA’s ‘Delusion’ swings for the fencesnoproscenium.comFinding Only a Sleeping Beast with ‘The Great Brown Bear’ (Review)Join the tribe for this modern folk talenoproscenium.comMagic Gone Wrong, Done Right ‘Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment’ Enthralls (The NoPro Review)The Void’s first fully original story threatens to scare the pixels right out of younoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Time of Your Life: An 80s Prom Escape Room [Mini Review] - Room Escape ArtistLivin' On A Prayer at Hughes High What's Going On? Time of Your Life: An 80s Prom Escape Room was a hybrid immersive…roomescapeartist.comEscape Chronicles - Testing Facility [Review] - Room Escape ArtistOffice Space meets Portal, with a hint of Tiny Toons. Location: North Hollywood, CA Date Played: August 26, 2018 Team…roomescapeartist.comEscape City Buffalo - Over the Falls [Review] - Room Escape Artist"You're aboot to die, eh. Soorry." Location: Tonawanda, NY Date Played: September 2, 2018 Team size: 4-10; we recommend…roomescapeartist.com
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
North is trying to become the Warby Parker of augmented reality glassesAlthough few people seem to really want to wear smart glasses or goggles - think Google Glass or Snapchat Spectacles …www.theverge.comFacebook confirms it's building augmented reality glasses"Yeah! Well of course we're working on it," Facebook's head of augmented reality Ficus Kirkpatrick told me when I asked…techcrunch.comThe puppets are the best reason to venture within The Walls of Harrow HouseThe basement of the Chopin Theatre has been host to some of the most extraordinary immersive theater experiences in…www.chicagoreader.comThis Artist-CEO Built a Collective That Tells Immersive Stories Through ArtMeow Wolf's mysterious, larger-than-life work dots New Mexico's desert-with more coming soonwww.ideo.comInside Chatterton, Quantum Theatre's immersive, twisting mystery at Trinity Cathedralclick to enlarge Watching Chatterton unfold at Trinity Cathedral last week, I kept thinking about a short story I once…www.pghcitypaper.comI've Seen the Future of Theme Parks - A Visit to EvermoreEvermore isn't finished. That was my first thought when I stepped through the gates of Utah's new immersive "experience…www.laughingplace.comThe Best VR Experiences From Raindance Film Festival 2018 - VRScoutShare TweetThis year's festival in London showcased a bold range of pioneering VR content. Here are some of our…t.coThe Paris Immersive ChallengeEpic's live experiences have been commissioned by Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Epic was…www.epicimmersive.comSomething New from XOXOSix years ago, we launched XOXO with a singular mission: to bring together and celebrate artists and creators of all…blog.xoxofest.com
From Kent Bye, Voices of VR:
“Indiecade is the International Festival of Play, and Festival Director Sam Roberts curates innovations in game play and interaction paradigms that explore the questions of: What do I do? What happens when I do it? And how do I do it? Roberts sees an overarching entertainment trend where we’re headed towards more immersive, bespoke, and experiential entertainment and games where you can have your own unique story and experience. Roberts and I talk about what Indicade tells him about the future of play.”
“The Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR show is running from October 12 to 28 at the Ayzenberg sp[a]ce gallery in Pasenda, CA. I had a chance to see all of the pieces in the show, and then talk with the curator Jesse Damiani about my highlights from the show, where immersive art is at, and where it’s all going.”
“Deadline for VR/AR artists & Storytellers to apply to the DevLab created by Kaleidoscope VR, RYOT, & Oculus is Wednesday, October 31st. I’ll be there running a workshop breaking down projects through the lens of my archetypal experiential design framework.”
From Michael Anderson, ARGN.com:
“AMC’s streaming platform Shudder just released Video Palace, an audio podcast by Mike Monello and Nick Braccia — the audio fiction serial follows a supernatural investigation into ‘white tapes.’ The podcast is available on your podcast app of choice in weekly installments, or you can listen to season 1 in its entirety through Shudder.”
Watch Video Palace: A Shudder Original Podcast on ShudderWhen video collector Mark Cambria w
From Damian Madray, Presence:
“EXPDSN Ep. 3: This episode with Seth Bunting and Christopher Pitcher is riddled with mind-bombs on the topic of designing for presence and the role of technology moving forward.”
“This is old but it’s so damn good. This guy drops some serious knowledge.”
From Mike Fontaine and Russell Eaton, My Haunt Life:
“Haunt Season is in full swing! In this episode we find our way through the darkness and into Zombie Joe’s Urban Death. We witness people’s nightmares while trying to not fall asleep with Creep LA’s Awake. We witness and take part in an open world…all while trying to uncover the secrets of the Theatre Macabre. We happily get to play our part and travel the world with Delusion: The Blue Blade. Road trip time as we head to Las Vegas to ‘Play a game’ with the one and only Jigsaw in the Saw Escape Room, get transported back to the 70s with Majestic Repertory‘s Measure for Measure: The Immersive Experience, and finally go back to our second home….The Freakling Brothers Trilogy of Terror! Once back in LA, we visited a house that’s to be condemned and hear about the stories that happened inside it with E3W Productions In Another Room.”
From of Kat Stuart and Chris Schetzle, LARParazzi podcast:
“Treats for your spooky season! Your brave LARParazzi are back with another piping hot podcast to keep the chills at bay! Check it out was Kat and Chris chat with guest LARP designer, immersive game-runner and educator Andrew McDonald!”
THE BIZ
Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary FestivalWe're excited to open submissions for the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Film and Alternate Realities programmes, to discover…sheffdocfest.comDevLab 2018DevLab participants incubate new work with a multidisciplinary group of advisors. Through hands-on workshops, live…about.kaleidoscope.fundThe Immersive Design SummitApplications to attend the Immersive Design Summit are open until Sunday, November 18! People from underrepresented…immersivedesignsummit.com
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