Immersive for you, immersive for me, immersive for everybody
It’s been another amazing week in Immersive-ville!
Sundance’s New Frontier Program continues to showcase innovation in immersive storytelling as Oculus showed off a new VR-theatre hybrid experience created by Tender Claws (Virtual Virtual Reality, Tendar) and theatre troupe Pie Hole. YouTube phenom Poppy showed up in an AR experience from RYOT and 1RIC (Terminal 3) on Magic Leap. And the XR funding network Kaleidoscope has relaunched and is now free to join. These are just a few of the things that have been making waves in Park City!
Meanwhile, immersive theatre shows and interactive art installations continue to proliferate across the USA and Canada, and we have a fascinating podcast guest and feature about NYC’s Little Cinema. All this, and more, below…
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IMMERSIVE DESIGN SUMMIT NEWS
Calling all creators: the Immersive Design Summit is commissioning a state of the industry survey.
We’re inviting ALL immersive creators around the world to add to the data that we’re gathering with the hope we can all get a clearer picture of the scope and scale of the work being made around the globe. Results will be aggregated and available publicly in late February, in addition to being presented at the Summit event. We know that a report based in part on solid data will be a boon to those applying for grants, talking to investors, and speaking up at city council meetings.
Please add your voices and share with your colleagues and other creators!
ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Little Cinema is a fixture in New York City’s art scene, bringing films to life at the House of Yes and the Brooklyn Museum. They’ve also spread their wings to Bonnaroo, and have crafted a number of immersive premieres for television series from TNT. The latest of these for the series I Am The Night, which debuted this week on the network.
We talk with founder Jay Rinsky about the company’s arc, the striking work at the heart of the I Am The Night premiere, and forging a path between art and commerce.
LA: SAVE THE DATE!
The LEIA Bowl: Office Hours
When: February 3, 2:30pm
Where: Thirsty Crow, 2939 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90026
Price: Free; 21+
Tags: #meetup
Mix & mingle with immersive creators in a bar that has NO TVs.
Members of LEIA’s committees will be on hand to provide updates on what’s going on behind the scenes with immersive infrastructure here in LA. An excellent alternative to The Big Game for immersive heads.
NYC: SAVE THE DATE!
No Proscenium/Room Escape Artist/Everything Immersive Meetup
When: February 11, 2019, 6pm
Where: Shades of Green Pub, 125 E 15th St, New York, NY 10003
Price: Free
Tags: #meetup
This event is for those interested in, passionate about, or working within immersive arts & entertainment in New York City. We’re calling all creators, storytellers, directors, engineers, artists, designers, writers, performers, event planners, producers, and more.
If you want to meet other passionate souls and exchange ideas about the future of entertainment and storytelling, join us.
We’ll be in the back room of the Shades of Green Pub!
PER VENUE REQUEST: NO MORE THAN TWO CHECKS PER TABLE, PLEASE. Please Venmo/PayPal/Cash App each other!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Austin: Hopscotch: Light & Sound
Dallas: Rainbow Vomit
LA: The LEIA Bowl: Office Hours; Bar of Dreams
NYC: The End of the World Bar & Bathtub; Rogues’ Gallery; Chaos Theory (Remount); Iceberg; Naturae Liber by Rachel Marks; Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold; Carmen: To Havana & Back (Remount); Murasaki’s Moon; Poetry Brothel Spring 2019 Season; Bottom’s Dream! (a Midsummer Actor’s Nightmare); Liminal Salon 10: Bermuda Triangle Swingers Cruise: 1978 Voyage; EMIT’s Immersive Jam
Richmond, VA: Broken Bone Bathtub
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SF: Immersive Design Week (Open to Public); Romeo and Juliet; SPACES: Terminator Salvation: Fight for the Future
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STORIES
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From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Here are our thoughts on WatchMoJo’s ‘Top 10 Craziest Escape Rooms Around the World.’
“Spoiler: it’s a poorly researched, weakly constructed, and factually flawed video.”
“We published escape rooms news for January:”
From Damian Madray of Presence and The Glint:
“Experiential by Design is a live webcast series of real dialogue with pioneers around experiential design, its purpose and how it can expand human consciousness.
“This episode of EXPDSN features Charles Michel, semi-finalist of Netflix’s Original: The Final Table and Grace Boyle, founder of The Feelies. We will be diving into the role of senses in storytelling, the importance to bringing forward the “lower” senses in experience design and how that pans out for activism, real empathy, emotional content and of course, how can experience expand our consciousness. Not to take away from past episodes but this one is bound to be the most exciting — you’ll want to be live for this one.”
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“Years ago, I read about a 24–7 fictional city that recorded everything within. The reporter had to give up all their ‘outside world’ clothes, wondered which interactions were real or just for cameras. It generated a seemingly impossible amount of raw material and it wasn’t clear what that would be made into. Now, creative results are starting to be released:”
“The first live-streamed discussion of the Immersive Book Club will be on Monday, February 4 at 6pm PST. Find more info at the website and sign up for the newsletter for future news and announcements!”
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