Oh, the immersive places you’ll go!
The news never stops in Immersive-ville, folks. Never.
What happened this week? Dreamscape Immersive opened their first permanent location in Los Angeles this week, while IMAX VR announced they are shutting their three remaining locations down in Q1 of 2019. In brighter news: Meow Wolf announced their latest location will be Washington, DC in 2022 (after Las Vegas in 2019 and Denver in 2020). The Overlook Film Festival also announced that their weekend-long alternate reality narrative game experience for the festival will be created by an all-star team including some of the folks behind: In Another Room, AMOS: A Play with Music, The Society/The Boanthropic, and Stash House. And we trust you all got your applications into Magic Leap’s Indie Creator Program?
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill invites us to her LA studio to check out her VR artwork and talk about how the world of fine art is meshing with the immersive and site-specific movements. Buckle up for one of our patented philosophical conversations!
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SAVE THE DATE!
NoPro Live/Everything Immersive Meetup
When: January 5, 2019; podcast at 2pm; office hours at 3pm
Where: Two Bit Circus, 634 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, California 90021
Price: Free; food, drink, and activities for additional fee; seating is limited, please RSVP on Facebook
Tags: #meetup, #immersive, #podcast, #NoProTurns5
Join us under the Big Top at Two Bit Circus’ Club 01 for the first ever NOPRO LIVE with Eric Gradman (Two Bit Circus), Lauren Ludwig (Capital W), and Josh Randall (Blackout/Two Bit Circus)!
This special edition of the podcast will be taped in front of a LIVE studio audience: YOU!
Host Noah Nelson will be on hand along with LA Editor Anthony Robinson, and special guests in a totally different format from anything we’ve done before. This SPECIAL EPISODE commemorates the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the founding of NoPro and the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the IMMERSIVE DESIGN SUMMIT.
Then: after the show is over we’re sliding into Office Hours mode, with Club 01 as our base of operations and all of Two Bit to hang out in.
Meet fellow fans and creators as we kick off 2019 right!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Atlanta: Clue
Austin: The Watchmaker’s Song
Houston: The Enchanted Forest
Las Vegas: Re:late(D)
LA: Paulie’s Polymers Office Holiday Party; Two Bit Circus’ New Year’s Eve Celebration
NYC: Last Audience; EN BUSCA | IN PURSUIT; Duet-ed; Cold Record; Pip’s Island; As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Pittsburgh: Bellmouth Crossing; OTHER: multiracial folklore
Portland: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
A Gentle Reawakening of Christmas Past in ‘The Dead, 1904’ (Review)Be transported back to the world of James Joyce with The Irish Repertory Theater, American Irish Historical Society…noproscenium.comExperience the Epidemic of Virtual Addiction in ‘Arcade Amerikana’ (Review)Buy a ticket to a theatre show, arrive at a nightclub, and become a part of the video installationnoproscenium.comLearn the Steps and Let Go with ‘Carmen: To Havana & Back’ (Review)A new, sequined twist (and side-step, and cha-cha-cha) on Bizet’s classicnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Swinging and Puzzling Away in Wartime with ‘Club Drosselmeyer 1941’ (Q&A)Creator Kellian Adams Pletcher tells us all about her holiday-themed, puzzling interactive theatre show in Bostonnoproscenium.comThe Immersive 5 with Cynthia von Buhler of Speakeasy DollhouseAn interview with the visual artist and theatre makernoproscenium.comThe Quest for the Best Escape Room is Over. For Now. (Q&A)We check in with Rich Bragg, founder of the Top Escape Rooms Projectnoproscenium.comDenver’s ‘Natura Obscura’ Takes You Into The Immersive Forest (Q&A)A surreal walk through the woods with the Museum of Outdoor Art and Prismajicnoproscenium.comAtlanta’s Found Stages is Having a ‘Frankenstein’s Ball’ (Q&A)We drop in on the innovative theatre company to ask about their new Frankenstein seriesnoproscenium.coma canary torsi Explores the Requiem in ‘Last Audience’ (Q&A)Artist Yanira Castro answers questions about the upcoming participatory experiencenoproscenium.com2019 Schedule | Overlook Film FestivalA four day celebration of all things horror. May 30th - June 2nd, 2019www.overlookfilmfest.comUI makes immersive virtual theater a realityThe action took place on stage, but audience members of a cutting-edge theater performance at the University of Iowa…now.uiowa.eduMagic Leap works best when it makes you question realityThere are two porgs from Star Wars running around a living room. One waddles near my feet while the other is out of my…www.cnet.comZoning board sides with "Fallen Saint" developers to allow immersive-theatre venue on lower…The city's Board of Zoning Adjustments sided with the developers of the "Fallen Saint" immersive-theatre venue on lower…uptownmessenger.comIMAX is shutting down its virtual reality arcade business for goodVirtual reality arcades were supposed to be one of the first, most convenient ways that expensive VR headgear would…www.theverge.comPerspective | Meow Wolf is coming to the nation's capital! Wait, Meow what?Meow what? Meow Wolf, baby. The big news in D.C. this week is that Meow Wolf is coming to the capital of khaki, to the…www.washingtonpost.comHow Wevr & Dreamscape Immersive Reinvented 'The Blu' for Location-Based VRWhen HTC first introduced its Vive virtual reality (VR) headset in April of 2016, "The Blu" quickly became one of the…variety.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Do Not Touch: Why These Stickers Are Flawed - Room Escape ArtistI stumbled up on a video that explored the creation of the radiation and biohazard symbols. In addition to some…roomescapeartist.comTune in for the a Livestream of the 4th Annual Golden Lock-In Awards - Room Escape ArtistOn January 2, 2019 we will publish the 2018 Golden Lock-In Award winners. But we won't publish this at 10:01am Eastern…roomescapeartist.com
From Kent Bye, Voices of VR:
“I talked with Lucas Rizzotto, the creator of the VR experience of Where Thoughts Go. This experience fits into this mode of storytelling that I’ve been referring to as the ‘yin archetypal journey,’ which is focused on creating an embodied, phenomenological experience of emotional self-reflection & introspection. It’s also about being immersed with a matrix of experiential relationships that reveals the common threads of humanity, and shows how you as an individual are connected to a larger whole.”
From Lance Weiler, Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab:
“The following is a round up of 52 Immersive Things from 2018 that shouldn’t be missed. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this round up. A valuable resource for anyone interested in looking at what caught the attention, mind and hearts of audiences in 2018.”
From Michael Anderson, ARGN.com:
“WIRED put out a short film about how to construct a crossword puzzle, featuring cruciverbalist David Kwong. And if you pay close attention, you might find another puzzle entirely, integrated into the video.”
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