Everything Immersive This Week (9/29/2018)
The flood of immersive work is only just beginning
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Hey folks! A ton of immersive happenings this week. This week on the site: we had interviews and reviews and features coming in from the areas of live action role play, interactive apps, immersive theatre, alternate reality experiences, plus a peek behind the scenes at Third Rail Projects’ piece at Burning Man. (What?!)
NoPro sent out a huge, huge North American newsletter this past week, as well as a huge LA newsletter for Spooky Season and put up a special Spooky Season LA Now Playing page.
By the way, just announced: our own Noah Nelson will be giving a speech at the Denver Immersive Summit in November. Plus, some exciting Immersive Design Summit news!
Check it all out below.
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IMMERSIVE DESIGN SUMMIT
We are thrilled to announce that the next set of speakers at the Immersive Design Summit in 2019 will be the team behind The Tension Experience, The Lust Experience, and Theatre Macabre. Gracing our stage in San Francisco will be Darren Lynn Bousman, Clint Sears, and Gordon Bijelonic.
In addition to The Experiences, this trio has teamed up to craft an immersive birthday party for Neil Patrick Harris and is working right now with the Russo brothers to launch a new immersive attraction in Las Vegas. Come check them out first at The Immersive Design Summit in San Francisco, this February 22nd and 23rd, 2019!
Applications to attend the Immersive Design Summit go live on October 18 and stay open until November 15. Pricing will be announced on October 18.
Here also is another video from 2018 Immersive Design Summit, where Mikhael Tara Garver spoke to us about Casting the Audience.
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! You can find us here on YouTube, and stay in touch via Twitter and Instagram for the latest announcements.
Want to make sure a friend or colleague is in the know? Make sure to send them to our official web site and have them sign up for our Alert List. We’ll see you in San Francisco in February!
NYC: SAVE THE DATE!
Our friends at Room Escape Artist will be giving a talk in Manhattan on October 17 and hosting their fall meetup:
ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
From NYC: Kathryn Yu talks with Carlo D’Amore, founder of interactive theatre company Live In Theater, about their latest work, the Nordic LARP influenced This Is When We Rest. Carlo is a Drama Desk Nominated director and he and LIT have been re-imagining the mystery genre since 2009.
This year he was part of the Interactive PlayLab’s Deep Dive team in Austin.
Meanwhile, in LA: Noah is on Tylenol with codeine. Uh oh.
Also: be sure to check out this week’s edition of Everything Immersive This Week when it hits the front page. Always a doozy! And follow us on The Gram!
To learn more about Deep Dive Austin and the SimuLife project, check out our previous podcast interviews with Bryan Bishop and Jeff Wirth.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
ARX: Crossed Wires; #NOFILTER
Baltimore, MD: The Institute of Visionary History and the Archives of the Deep Now: Episodes 2–6
Boston, MA / Lexington, KY / Nashville, TN: Escape the Lost Pyramid
Denver: First, Do No Harm; Denver Immersive Summit
Hattiesburg, MS: London Exposed
LA: In Another Room (2018); 49 Boxes (Remount); Limbo Lounge; Death and Cockroaches; Snow Fridge; Moonglow — The First Wolf Trail Experience; Immersive Performance: Empathy, Trust, & the Nervous System (Workshop)
Maryland: Broken Bone Bathtub Tour
Miami: Jay Jackson Immersive Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN: The Beldenville Troll; DANGER ROUSSE; Second Skin
Pittsburgh: Hollow Moon
St. Louis, MO: A Shakespeare Immersive Theatre Premiere
Toronto: If On a Christmas Night; The Medium
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
From Laura E. Hall, author and escape room/puzzle designer:
“I designed the puzzle game/dessert course described here:
“Christina Wodtke shares a fantastic primer of big ideas from game design, all of which are helpful for people working in immersive. Absolutely jam-packed with good stuff!”
From Michael Anderson, ARGN.com:
“YouTube theorist MatPat (Game Theorists, Film Theorists) ran a merch-driven puzzle trail a few weeks back, and it looks like he’s back for another round. A mini-puzzle round that went live today (9/29) laid out the structure of things to come for prospective solvers.”
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