Over the past year immersive creator Jessica Creane has become one of my favorite people to talk shop with. The creator of Chaos Theory and the co-creator, with Yannick Trapman-O’Brien, of Fair Trade, Creane’s new work – Tea Party at the End of the World — will debut in the Philadelphia Fringe next month.

In this episode of NoPro we talk about how that show is coming together, tackling themes like grief, and just what immersive experiences excel at on the interpersonal level.

SHOW NOTES

• Tea Party at the End of the World
• IKantKoan (Jessica Creane's site)
• Review Rundown for 8.22.23
• Everything Immersive This Week (LinkedIn)
• Everything Immersive This Week (Web)
• NoPro Newsletter SignUp
• Call Sheet

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This week Mike Michaels of Austin’s Eureka Room talks to us about making a room in his house as bright as the sun, roadside attractions, and Austin’s immersive scene. We have a lot of fun.

SHOW NOTES

• The Eureka Room
• IRL Experience Creators Society (Austin)
• Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park
• Mike's write up of Huis Ten Bosch
• Everything Immersive This Week (LinkedIn Version)
• Everything Immersive This Week (EI Version)
• Review Rundown for 8.16.23
• The Immersive 5 w/Jennine Willett
• Patrick's Port of Entry Review
• August 2023 Call Sheet
• Lucid Immersive Summit (Singapore)

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This week Nick Fortugno, The Director of Gaming Pathways at City College of New York, slips into the host chair to interview an artist he’s collaborated with for years now: filmmaker and Director of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab Lance Weiler, whose critically acclaimed immersive storytelling experience Where There’s Smoke is currently running at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey through Oct. 1st with an upcoming artist talk on September 30th.

Nick and Lance have been working together for a long time now, and we thought it would be a unique opportunity to play with the NoPro format and have artistic collaborators take a deep dive into a piece of work. We're pretty happy with how it turned out!

SHOW NOTES

• Where There's Smoke at ARTYard
• Where There's Smoke Artist Talk (Sep. 30)
• Gaming Pathways at City College of New York
• Review Rundown for 8.8.23
• American Dreams Are Just Out of Reach in Stunning ‘Port of Entry’ (The NoPro Review)
• CALL SHEET AUGUST 2023

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This week Curtis Hickman co-founder and chief creative officer of The VOID is here to talk about his new — and quite excellent book: Hyper Reality - The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences.

Join us for a quick, action-packed conversation that covers how magic and virtual reality interact, the differences between storytelling and storybuilding, and the role Dungeons & Dragons plays in the design philosophy behind impossible experiences involving Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Jumanji.

Show Notes

• Curtis Hickman
• Hyper Reality - The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences
• The VOID
• Making Ghostbusters
• Review Rundown for 8.2.22

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This week Keram Malicki-Sanchez of VRTO and FIVARS is with us to talk about the recently wrapped VRTO — the Spatial Media World Conference in Toronto, and of course we get into live performance in VR, the cutting edge of haptics, and the true identity of Shakespeare.

Wait… what was that last one?

SHOW NOTES

• VRTO
• FIVARS
• Titan Haptics
• Games by Stitch
• Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare

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Eight years. 400 Episodes.

This week we are marking the anniversary by having NoPro team members Allie Marotta ( our NYC Curator), Kevin Gossett (LA reviews editor), Patrick McLean (Chicago Curator), Leah Davis (New England curator), Laura Hess (Arts Editor) and Parker Sela, (associate producer of this very podcast) join us.

On this team episode we look back on the crew's "moment before" joining the NoPro team and take a snapshot of where everyone feels immersive is at the moment.

Plus: an old fashioned Noah Rant at the START of the show.

SHOW NOTES

Alien War (wikipedia)

The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)

“Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?

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This week a very special VERY LONG episode of the podcast featuring guest host Mikhael Tara Garver, Head of Culture House Immersive and Director of Immersive Experience for the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser who is here to interview myself, Kathryn Yu, Graham Wetterhahn, Jessica Creane, and Nick Fortugno my shipmates for the absolutely incredible surprise trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando to head aboard the Galactic Starcruiser that Graham and Kathryn organized for us, and that a whole lot of people contributed to.

The conversation that follows dips between talking about our characters to inside baseball stuff about immersive and back again. It is deeply nerdy in every sense of the word. It’s also unlike anything we’ve done before. 

SHOW NOTES

CALL SHEET JULY 2023

My Star Wars Saga

Waking Up With The Force

Regarding Rose

Our coverage of the Starcruiser is brought to you by Agile Lens, bringing XR and theatre together for over a decade, and After Hours Theatre Company, producers of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, with additional support from listeners like you. 

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PostCurious founder and lead game designer Rita Orlov is joined by writer Lauren Bello (Apple TV's Foundation, Netflix's Sandman) who talk about their collaboration on Threads of Fate, the revised version of PostCurious' very first game The Tale of Ord. Chicago Curator & Remote Experiences Editor Patrick McLean guest hosts.

SHOW NOTES

• PostCurious
• Threads of Fate
• The Morrison Game Factory
• “Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?
• The City, Burned: Immersive in a Era of Radical Change (Op-Ed)
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)
• NoPro on THREADS

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Eric Garcia, creator of WE BUILD HOUSES HERE and co-director of San Francisco's Detour devised dance company is interviewed by Parker Sela about the immersive dance production that explores the idea of queer sanctuaries by combining shipwrecks and San Francisco's iconic OASIS drag nightclub.

Then stick around for the missing part of last week's show.

SHOW NOTES

• DETOUR DANCE
• WE BUILD HOUSES HERE
• NoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)
• Stoking Vegas’ Immersive Flame: Lost Spirits Distillery (Review)
• Denver Fringe 2023 Immersive Superlatives
• Review Rundown: The One With Magic & Multiverses

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