Everything Immersive This Week (11/02/2019)
Spooky Season may be over, but the work continues
No rest for the wicked!
Not while we’re deep into the planning for next year’s summit. That’s right: HERE 2020, our followup to the last two design summits, is taking shape behind the scenes and it’s got me aflutter.
All of this is part of the bigger plan, to take what we’ve built here and establish a solid foundation for an institute that serves the immersive and experiential arts. Which is why it was so amazing to have the community rally and take our Patreon up to 300 backers this week. (Of course, we’re back down to 299 — but let’s stay focused on the positive. Although we always need new backers.)
The work that’s out there? It’s only the herald of what’s to come.
Now, let’s see what’s on the near horizon.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Bernie Su is the multiple Emmy winning showrunner, co-creator, and executive producer of ‘Artificial,’ the first scripted narrative series on Twitch which also won Twitch its first Emmy.
Bernie’s been at this for a while, with ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ being one of the seminal works of the transmedia age.
As live immersive and interactive creators look to expanding their work across mediums — just check out our last podcast episode for an example — we thought it would be a good time to check in on how the parallel track of online interactive storytelling has matured in the last half-decade.
Plus: updates on our Patreon campaign and on the HERE Summit in 2020.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
NYC: Our Trace of Time (Remount)
Hauppage, NY: Dead of Night: Society
Montreal: Cadavre Exquis
Baltimore: HUMBUG: The Great P.T. Barnum Seance and Traveling Museum (Remount)
Salt Lake City: Thank You Theobromine
Seattle: The Christmas Killings at Corgi Cliffs
Las Vegas: The Manson Family (An Opera)
LA: Prosthetic Reality, Rhythms of the City, Tales By Candlelight
Orange, CA: Game Night
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
‘Last Audience’ Grapples With What to Do with an Audience (The NoPro Review)a canary torsi’s latest participatory work has an unfinished qualitynoproscenium.com‘Oasis Time Travel’ Turns the Line Between Party and Theatre into Its Own Medium (Review)Silver Dream Projects takes you to the disco past from the future present in their new transmedia projectnoproscenium.comPseudonym Productions’ ‘Dark Passage’ Shines a Light in Philly (Review)The Orlando transplants go big on immersive, but will their new hometown follow?noproscenium.com‘Into the Woods’ Can’t See the Forest for the Trees (The NoPro Review)Rooftop Musical Society adds immersive elements that don’t quite work to the Sondheim classicnoproscenium.comVisit the Not-So-Distant Past with ‘Museum of the Hidden City’ (Review)This AR walking tour lovingly explores the history of one SF neighborhood and provides insight the affordable housing…noproscenium.comThere’s Nothing Quite Like ‘CAGES’ (NoPro Notes)A preview of a next-gen musical rewrites rules in DTLA’s Arts Districtnoproscenium.comA Sweet But Too-Short Time with Nothing Without A Company’s ‘Pakalolo Sweet’ (Review)An interactive party sets the tone for the second in a trilogy of plays about drugsnoproscenium.comOur ‘Silence’ Will Not Protect Us (Review)Hunting ghosts at London’s CoLab Factorynoproscenium.com
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Plight of the Margo felt epic. Part of this was the length; we played it back-to-back in 2 90-minute segments. However, it was so much more than the game clock. Experience escape room players should visit ConTRAPtions in Fort Collins, CO for this incredible adventure.
Trap Door Escape Room builds big, strange, narrative-driven escape games. They have a style all their own and I’m into it. Cure Z: Quarantine, the sequel to their retired second game Cure Z, was massive.
From Jeff Heimbuch of HorrorBuzz:
Sort of an ALONE meets THE ROPE with bits of humor throughout, it’s something that Los Angelenos would appreciate. It’s good to see some variety in the NYC immersive scene, especially around Halloween.
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
‘Blackout’ Celebrates 10 Years of Freakouts (Feature)A look back at the infamous solo horror immersive experiencenoproscenium.comHistorical by Day, ‘Unhinged’ by Night (A NoPro Adventure)With history around every corner, our roving reporter explores Northern California from Winchester to Winenoproscenium.com13 Days of Halloween with No ProsceniumJoin us as we travel around North America through Instagram!noproscenium.com
From Kathryn Yu of NoPro:
Writer Karen Loew ponders the question of what happens to traditional museums when pop-up selfie factories appropriate the word “museum” for themselves.
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
We’re big fans of Hatch Escapes in Los Angeles, California. Their first game Lab Rat won a 2018 Golden Lock-In award. Hatch Escapes recently launched a new Kickstarter campaign to fund the launch of their largely built next game, The Ladder.
From Michael Andersen of ARGN:
The New Noology Network alternate reality game has taken a few twists and turns in the last few weeks, and looks like it may be the continuation of an ARG from over a decade ago, in anticipation for an upcoming TV series.
Pizza Time Pizza is a lighthearted story about a pizza company that is very insistent it’s not a cult and bears no responsibility for a string of murders. The webseries-centric ARG wrapped up the narrative with Pizza Time Pizza 10 earlier this week.
From Jesse Damiani of VR Scout & artist Nancy Baker Cahill:
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
POVERTY SIMULATION in Cupertino.
Dekker Dreyer writes: hmmm… I’m not sure about the optics on this… thoughts? Kicking off a lengthy discussion about what we might call “immersive for good,” the efficacy of simulated scenarios, and just what is and isn’t tacky in philanthropy in an age of income inequality. A solid discussion thread, indeed.
NOW FUNDING
NYC: A kid-friendly immersive festival inspired by Jane Jacobs.
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London: Zombie Bus
LA: A new experience from the creators of Lab Rat.
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