The No Proscenium Podcast

This week a special teamspeak episode of the podcast featuring the NoPro Staff including Leah Davis, Patrick McLean, Laura Hess, Blake Weil, and for the first time on the show Parker Sela, our associate producer.

We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, chatting about what we’ve been going to see and experience with a touch of what we’re looking forward to.

The conversation ranges WILDLY, but at around the 55 minute mark we get into a discussion and a description of artist Paul McCarthy’s White Snow for about 20 minutes. That involves discussion some pretty graphic imagery, and younger ears or those who just don’t want to get into sexualized material may want to hop ahead.

So yeah, that’s an EXPLICIT tag. We’re so 90's.

SHOW NOTES

• Doors Of Divergence
• Living Paintings
• POV: you are an ai achieving consciousness
• Paul McCarthy’s WS White Snow
• InterconU
• A Blistering Case of SXSW FOMO (A NoPro Guide)
• Review Rundown for 3.7.23
• CALL SHEET March 2023

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This week on the show our dear friend artist Nancy Baker Cahill is back for another enlightening conversation about digital art — both her work and the big currents that are shaping this constantly evolving world — from XR to working on massive public pieces that are immersive in a whole other dimensions, with stops along the way to talk about museum grade NFTs and incorporating generative AI into the work. 

• Nancy Baker Cahill
• NoPro Podcast Episode 177: Nancy Baker Cahill
• Quest’s Back Catalog Could Be A Knockout, But Meta Pulls Its Punches
• Immersive Review Rundown for 2.28.23
• Hunt A Killer Reviews Round Up
• SXSW: Sport And Immersive: The Past and Future of Fan Engagement
• SXSW: Is This Really Live? Performance in the Age of XR
• SXSW: This is Not a Person Part 2

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This week on the show NoPro’s London curator Shelley Snyder takes over the interview duties to talk with Immersive Everywhere’s Brian Hook about the company’s upcoming debut of The Great Gatsby in New York City after a long London run, along with a few updates about Gatsby’s future in the UK.

It's the first of what’s set to be some regular podcast dispatches coming out of London thanks to the continued support of our Patreon backers. 

SHOW NOTES

• Immersive Everywhere
• The Great Gatsby
• Review Rundown for 2.22.23
• Call Sheet for Feb 2023
• Everything Immersive

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This week on the show YET ANOTHER doubleheader, only this time we’re staying on the VR side of things with a check in with ILMxLAB and then with the organizers of the XR Live Performance festival.

First — From ILMxLAB we talk with Director Jose Perez III and CG & Lighting Lead Ronman Ng about the PLAYSTATION VR2 launch title Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge: Enhanced Edition. This is what it says on the tin: an Enhanced Edition of the game we already love, and we get into just what is going into the new edition, what the PSVR2’s haptics are opening up for designers, and the state of VR on this eve of the launch of the highly anticipated peripheral for the wildly successful Playstation 5.

Then Braden Roy and Brian Tull of The Ferrymen Collective are here to talk about something at the other end of the VR spectrum: the XR Live Performance Exhibition now underway which is putting the spotlight on one of VR’s all too secret joys: live interactive theatrical performances staged inside virtual worlds.  

ILMxLAB

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge: Enhanced Edition

XRLive Performance Exhibition

The Ferrymen Collective

Review Rundown: The One With Murder Mysteries, An Evil Ikea, and a Baby in a Well

‘NOWISWHEREWEARE’ Brings Us to ‘The Stars’ and Back (REVIEW)

NoPro's CALL SHEET, February 2023

NoPro Patreon

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This week on the show another doubleheader, this time reaching into two different parts of the immersiverse.

First up we have a great talk with Nate Koch, the prolific producer who has been part of Sleep No More, Queen of the Night, and the epic opening of Hermès’ flagship store in New York City to talk about a career that balances creating art and working with some of the biggest companies in the world as clients for experiential marketing. It’s the first time Nate and I have talked, and we have a fantastic conversation. 

Then Athena Demos and Doug Jacobson of Big Rock Creative are back on the show to chat about the surprise closing of AltSpaceVR, where they’ve been hosting the award winning virtual Burning Man celebration known as BRCvr, the future of that particular project and of Big Rock Creative as a whole… and we get into some broader thoughts about the state of VR at this particular moment in time.

SHOW NOTES

• Enveekay
• With a Musical Block Party Extravaganza, Hermès Feted its New (and Marvelous) Madison Avenue Home (Vogue)
• Big Rock Creative
• AltspaceVR is shutting down as Microsoft’s mixed reality division shrinks (The Verge)
• BRCvr
• CALL SHEET FEBRUARY 2023 (NoPro)
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (So Far)

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This week on the show a DOUBLEHEADER with a double dose of horror.

First, our good friend Bryan Bishop stops by wearing a brand new hat: he’s the Immersive Curator for this year’s Overlook Film Festival — the horror focused genre festival which is coming up in March in New Orleans, and he’s here to tell us all about what’s on tap for the festival. 

Then Winston Fisher, Co-Founder and CEO of AREA 15 dials in to give us the lowdown on the recently announced next phase of the Area 15 District in Las Vegas, which will include the first YEAR ROUND Halloween Horror Nights attraction from Universal. 

• Overlook Film Festival
• Fangoria Article on Overlook's immersive offerings
• Area 15
• Universal Is Bringing A Year-Round Horror Attraction To Vegas' Area 15 (Las Vegas Weekly)
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (So Far)
• A Shift at ‘Saint Jude’ (Review, NoPro)
• The Immersive 5 with Patchwork Adventures (NoPro)

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This week a special episode of the pod as Leah Davis, our New England correspondent, takes over the host duties for a panel on LARP in 2023. They’re joined by Darker Larper aka Dann, a LARP creator and academic and Nicholas Fortugno, Director of Gaming Pathways at City College of NY and co-founder of the Come Out and Play festival. (Plus Noah is there in the background, engineering and chiming in a little.)

• NYC Immersive Community Meetup
• The Nest
• 40 Watts From Nowhere on KCRW
• Call Sheet

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In Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston, a bold experiment that brings together performance, puppetry, creative technology, and interactive storytelling waits for the curious and adventurous. This is The Department of Wonder, and it looks to be bringing together all the elements we talk about on the podcast regularly all under one roof.

This week we talk with Brandon Oldenburg and Limbert Fabian Co-Heads of Creative at The Department of Wonder about what their team has built, how they got there, and their plans for the future of the project.

• The Department of Wonder
• Call Sheet (January)

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Last January we told you all about the Black Immersive Creators Grant, which gives direct support to a Black maker who is launching original immersive work with a grant fund target of $10,000.

This year the Grant is back and looking to do it all over again. Joining us on the pod this week is Maya Carter - Vice President of the Board of the Black Immersive Creators Grant — and Grant support team member Kendra Slack of Linked Dance Theatre.

Black Immersive Creators Grant

Call Sheet - Jan 2023

Universal Plans New Family Resort in Texas, Las Vegas Horror Attraction

Review Rundown for 1/13/23

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We kick off 2023 by talking with the creators responsible for one of our 2022 highlights: the NoPro Review Crew trip to The Ministry of Peculiarities: Hope End in Azuza, CA. This escape game is the talk of SoCal's immersive scene, as it blends the best of escape room sleuthing with dialed in performances and a game structure where story is the ultimate reward.

We sit down with Adam Moody and brothers Jonathan & Benjamin Berk, the creative team who are Overlook Film Festival bound this Spring.

SHOW NOTES

The Ministry of Peculiarities

Overlook Film Festival

Call Sheet - January 2023

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