The No Proscenium Podcast

This week on the show we've got three segments with members of the NoPro Review Crew checking in from across North America to share parts of their "Best Of" lists for 2023.

Joining us are: Edward Mylechreest (NYC), Nicholas Fortugno (NYC), Blake Weil (Philly/East Coast At Large), Katrina Lat (Toronto), Laura Hess (Arts Editor), Patrick McLean (Chicago/Remote Editor), Martin Gimenez (At Large), Kevin Gossett (LA Reviews Editor), and Danielle Riha (Denver).

Hosted by Noah J. Nelson.

• NoPro’s Best Immersive Moments of 2023
• NoPro's Best Immersive Shows & Experiences of 2023 (Coming Later Today)

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This week on the show we’re joined by Co-Founder and Senior Creative Director of Meow Wolf, Caity Kennedy;  Sr. Art Director of Mighty Coconut Don Carson, and returning guest Lucas Martell, founder of Mighty Coconut and creator of Walkabout Mini Golf — aka NoPro’s favorite social VR game.

Why?

Because of the recently released Walkabout: Meow Wolf expansion, silly. It’s the Reese’s Peanut Butter cups of VR experiences that takes two great things — Walkabout Mini Golf and Meow Wolf’s Numina space from Convergence Station in Denver — and turns it into something wholly unique which brings out the best IN both team’s work.

SHOW NOTES

Walkabout Mini Golf

Meow Wolf

Worlds In Play (Jan 2024)

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This week: a special trip out to COSM's test center at the University of Utah campus for an EXCLUSIVE interview with Ricardo Romaneiro, the latest artist collaborator to be announced by the immersive media company. We also talk with COSM CEO Jeb Terry and the head of COSM's Studios & Labs Neil Carty about the content and strategy they've developed for the launch of the Hollywood Park experience center in LA in 2024.

All that plus host Noah Nelson's impressions of COSM's tech and the in progress preview of Romaneiro's LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm & Macrocosm project which blends live musical and visual elements with pre-rendered material on the wrap-around LED screens in COSM's venue.

• Cosm
• E&S
• Cosm & Ricardo Romaneiro
• Ricardo Romaneiro
• Cosm & Nancy Baker Cahil
• Cosm & UFC

(This episode was made possible thanks to travel & accommodations provided by COSM.)

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Long time listeners and readers know that we’re big fans of the dungeon crawling extravaganza Demeo and its follow up Demeo Battles, both of which are part of the Demeo Action Role Playing System, and which are available now on Steam (PC + VR), Meta Quest and Pico (VR). 

Joining us on the pod today is Gustav Stenmark, producer of Demeo Battles for Resolution Games the Stockholm-based games studio.

• Demeo
• Demeo Battles
• Resolution Games

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This week on the show: we tip toe through the our Holiday 2023 Gift Guide with esteemed members of the NoPro staff — Katrina Lat, Nicholas Fortugno, Laura Hess, and Patrick McLean — bringing a wide variety of options from the pretty affordable to the WAIT HOW MUCH?

• NoPro’s 2023 Gift Guide for Immersive Fans & Makers

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This week - NoPro arts editor Laura Hess hops into the host chair for a conversation with New England curator Leah Davis and London curator Shelley Snyder. The topic at hand?

A look at Installation art and how different environments impact audience engagement. For this time out the Crew will focus on Outernet’s NOW Building installations in London and works at MASS MOCA in Western Massachusetts.

And after our main segment, some thoughts on the big news of the week: the closure of Sleep No More in New York.

• Outernet
• MASS MoCA
• Are We Asking Too Much of Public Art? - Seph Rodney, Hyperallergic
• LDI (Discount code: SPEAKER23)
• Sleep No More To Close In January - Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
• Le Roi Est Mort: Sleep No More Is Closing (Op-Ed)

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This episode was recorded LIVE at The Roguelike Tavern in Burbank.

Joining us were Matt Bamberg-Johnson and Chris Porter of LA’s The Speakeasy Society who came to share word about Winter Fest OC, coming up later this month in Costa Mesa and featuring all new immersive work from the beloved LA theatre collective.

Then we pull John McCormick, owner of The Roguelike Tavern, away from the bar to tell The Roguelike's origin story of the bar and spotlight the immersive & interactive attractions available on site.

Finally Scarlett Kim, producer of the upcoming Worlds in Play gathering at Arizona State University in Mesa this January, previews this upcoming event which will gather play practitioners from around the country and brings word of the Worlds for Change Challenge which is offering scholarships to ASU's XRts graduate degree program.

• Winter Fest OC
• The Speakeasy Society
• The Roguelike Tavern
• Worlds in Play
• Worlds for Change Challenge
• The Immersive Immersive
• LDI
• XLIVEXLDI -The Immersive Experience Round Up

Use code SPEAKER23 to get 20% off VIP, Conference, and Expo Hall Pass for LDI.

Special thanks to Black Ax Media for capturing video of the recording. Keep your eyes peeled!

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This week on the show we’re taking a look at SPOOKY SEASON here in Los Angeles with members of the LA Review Crew — Kevin Gossett, our LA Reviews editor, No Pro Arts Editor and Squirrel Mode practitioner Laura Hess, and after years of being our roving correspondent Martin Gimenez joins the podcast for the first time.

On the docket: Reign of Terror, Haunted Hayride, Halloween Horror Nights, Knott's Scary Farm, The Willows, Fangs!, and Angel of Light.

• Review Rundown for 10.17.23
• Love & Board Games: ‘The Morrison Game Factory’ Posts A Curiously Sweet Puzzletale (The NoPro Review)
• Particle Ink is Coming BACK to Vegas in a BIG way (NEWSWIRE)
• Call Sheet for October 2023

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This week our guests are Barry Threw, the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area and Vanessa Chang, curator of the CripTech Metaverse Lab and director of programs at Leonardo. Both are here to talk about the upcoming GRAY AREA FESTIVAL coming up in San Francisco OCTOBER 19th — 22nd of which the Metaverse Lab is a part. It’s a great conversation about tech, art, access, and the changing cultural landscape of the SF Bay Area.

• Gray Area
• Gray Area Festival
• Leonardo
• Recoding CripTech
• The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online (Wired)
• Whole Earth Index
• Immersive Review Rundown for 10.10.23
• ‘STAR CHOIR’s Message Is Lost in a Bottle of Space Dust (The NoPro Review)
• COMING SOON: NIGHTCRAWLERS
• LA Immersive Meetup & NoPro LIVE Taping

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I’ve gathered a special panel filled with members of our team and community from across the U.S. all to say farewell to Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, the AHEAD OF ITS TIME immersive experience created by Walt Disney Imagineering that the Disney company closed at the end of last month in Orlando after a year and a half of voyages.

Joining us this week are theme park and Infinite Rabbit Holes designer Dave Cobb, Emmy Award winning interactive storyteller Jay Bushman, magician & immersive experience producer James Lopez, NoPro’s own Leah Davis & Anthony Robinson, and returning guests from our NoPro Goes to the Galactic Starcruiser episode immersive creator Jessica Creane, director of gaming pathways at City College of New York Nicholas Fortugno, and former NoPro Executive Editor Kathryn Yu.

So, you know, just a few friends.

NoPro Goes to the Galactic Starcruiser

Batuu Pride

Together As One - by Dave Cobb

Full Agency Storytelling - Johanna Koljonen, CEO, Participation Design Agency (Talk at IDS 2019)

The Experience Design of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser — Immersive and Interactive, Personalized and Communal - Kathryn Yu

NoPro Call Sheet for October 2023

Immersive Review Rundown for 10.3.23

Philadelphia Fringe Diary 2023

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