Everything Immersive This Week (10/05/2019)
The Season is here and it won’t quit
Before you dive in and see what you’ve missed, take a moment to make sure you DON’T MISS what’s next:
This week INDIECADE is landing in Santa Monica, and our own Kathryn Yu is going to be in conversation with Jenny Weinbloom of Meow Wolf. But that’s only one reason why you should check out Indiecade, which is THE international gathering of independent game makers. Want to know what the future of play is? You’ll find it there. I know we did years and years ago, which is one reason why we’re here now. The conference kicks off on Thursday, and there’s games galore over the weekend.
Before that, our own Noah Nelson (hey, that’s me!) is hosting the talkback for Delusion Alt-Delete with Jon Braver and Carl Choi on Oct. 9th at The Dragon and Meeple. We’re talking immersive theatre and playing board games and you can join us for the low-low price of FREE.
Before we send you off: we’re doing a big push this month on our Patreon. In stark terms: are we worth 16 cents a day to you? If so, click on over to our page and pledge $5/month. Because that’s how the math works. We need your support more than ever. To be frank: making media costs, and no one wants to pay for quality. That’s where you come in. If everyone who follows us on social media pledged 16 cents a day, we’d have a budget of over $15k. Right now we have 1/10th of that.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Last week, at VIFF Immersed, Ricky Brigante of Pseudonym Productions gave the opening keynote and our own Noah Nelson moderated the closing panel with the competition judges.
So naturally, the night before, Ricky and Noah stayed up drinking and talking, and recorded it all for you. This after the back and forth of first Noah’s and then Ricky’s column on growing the audience for immersive.
Recorded live in an awesome hotel room that the Vancouver Film Festival was kind enough to provide us with. East Coast meets West Coast all the way up in British Columbia!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
NYC: Build and Destroy featuring DJ Rickmanholla, Where the F is Beverly?, Murder Mystery Experience
Toronto: History Alive: The JS Woodsworth Story,
Minneapolis: Feed Your Head,
Chicago: Bloody Bathory,
Houston: The Rabbit Cage
New Orleans: Preservation HALLoween Presents HAG: An Immersive Experience in III Acts
San Francisco: Museum of the Hidden City
LA: Poetry Brothel’s 5th Annual Masquerade, Relics of the Hypnotist War, Cyber Spirits, Black Magick, Red Flags, Afterlife Anonymous
Global: Avengers: Damage Control,
Online: <<dead.play>>
Tour: Hidden Stories
COMMUNITY
NYC: Join Everything Immersive in New York City for a meetup on October 9. RSVP on Facebook.
APPEARANCES
Find members of the NoPro team and Everything Immersive family in your neck of the woods
October:
Noah Nelson — Delusion Alt Delete Launch Event
Kathryn Yu — Indiecade 2019
David Spira — Escape Room Industry Conference in London, October 15 & 16. “The Player Experience: From Brain Teasers to Brain Trauma”
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Decode Ann Arbor packed in a complete narrative (with good structure), strong puzzles, and appropriate technology into The Minerva Project. They built it all around an engaging and entertaining character in the form of the AI, Minerva.
Novel Escape’s inaugural game, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a ton of fun. The setup, puzzles, and climactic story beat were smart, elegant, and smile-inducing.
From Jeff Heimbuch of HorrorBuzz:
I really loved it, and really want to make sure more folks take the journey down to Orange County to see it. — Jeff
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
From Kathryn Yu of NoPro:
Dr. Harry Farmer reports on the results of a study challenging the claim that virtual reality is an “empathy machine.” Participants watched the same documentary VR film in a headset and a tablet. The study found no meaningful difference in attitudes towards between the different platforms after watching the 360 film. However, Farmer points towards a more embodied experience or “less nonfictional” experience (with interactivity) as potentially having a greater effect.
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Don’t let adhesive residue break immersion in the experiences you create. Here are some tips to get rid of it.
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
Are you a fan of bizarre houses? The “Mystic House” for sale in South Australia has a lot to offer the curious viewer of the uncanny, or the haunted house designer looking for inspiration.
Every day in October, I send a curated selection of Halloween links, essays, art, music, or something fun to get you into a spooky mood. Sign up for 31 Days of Halloween here:
From Errol Elumir of Room Escape Divas:
The Escape Room Project, Enthusiast Choice Awards is now open for people to apply to be a nominator or voter! There are stringent rules in place though.
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
NOW FUNDING
Broken Bone Bathtub is making a documentary of their tour.
Daemonologie: Smoke & Mirrors
Boston: An immersive game theatre experience where you will decide a woman’s fate.
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Jobs, Grants, Gigs, and more
Kaleidoscope’s DevLab 2019
DEADLINE: October 14, 2019
DevLab is a six-week content accelerator for immersive films, games, apps, art, and experiences. The program incubates 10 new projects each year with weekly lectures and mentorship from a multidisciplinary group of advisors. The program culminates with First Look, where participants will present their projects to industry leaders for a chance to secure funding and distribution.
i-Docs 2020 — Call for Participation
DEADLINE: Oct. 25, 2019
Following the success of five previous i-Docs Symposia, we are pleased to announce the call for participation for i-Docs 2020. Convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose and Julia Scott-Stevenson, and hosted by UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre, i-Docs 2020 will be held at Watershed in Bristol’s Harbourside on Wednesday to Friday 25–27 March. We invite proposals for papers, pre-constituted panels, case studies, posters and projects to showcase. In addition, this time we also want to encourage alternative and remote forms of participation — both to reduce the carbon footprint of the event and to include delegates otherwise unable to take part.
Workshops
LA: Sophia Stoller’s IRIS Company
We are hosting our first ever Teen Dance Workshop! Join Iris Company dancers and Artistic Director Sophia Stoller for a full day of classes. The schedule for the day includes Gyrokinesis®, Ballet, Contemporary, Company Rep, Improvisation, and CI Training™.
Dancers can drop-in for single classes or join us for the full day. Register before October 14th to get early bird rates!
NYC: Linked Dance Theatre
Immersive Movement Workshop Oct 19
Linked Dance Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka are hosting a Immersive Movement worksop in our current space for Remembrance on Governors Island for Dancers and Actors interested in immersive movement practices.
Exploring site specific choreography for immersive storytelling with LDT
Techniques including:
- Utilization of space as a container and propeller of narrative.
- Innovation in movement techniques
- Use of movement as a tool to create and break the 4th wall within immersive landscapes
WORLD BUILDING AND MAGIC CIRCLE CREATION
Linked Dance Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka are hosting a Immersive story workshop: World building and Magic Circle creation.
Be one of 5 to Join us as we share our methods to writing rules for worlds and creating entrance rituals for magic circle creation
Exploring entrance rituals, interactions and creating frameworks and rules for world building.
Techniques including:
- Create a reason for your audience to be there and use it to invite them into your world
- Techniques on creating diagrams for world building
- Concept distilling
LA: Method For Being; The Flow of The TRANSMEDIA ACTOR.
Fiona Rene (The Willows, ABC’s Stumptown) offes a workshop for actors this month.
Join me on OCT 23 from 7–10pm for a very discounted workshop (ONLY $30/PP… in Atwater Village)
We will address;
What is TransMedia?
How does it apply to the Story?
How does it apply to the Character?
How does it apply to the Actor?
How does this make me more money, more confident and more successful in my craft and career.?PLEASE EMAIL MethodForBeing@gmail.com to RSVP
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