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Managing Editor Kathryn Yu is joined by members of the NYC team --Allie Marotta, Asya Gorovits, Blake Weil, and Cheyenne Ligon -- to talk about what they've been seeing and what's on their minds: including the Great Gotham Challenge, which had some issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Continuing our 2019 Overlook Film Festival coverage , we sit down with two of the creators of the fest's immersive offerings. First up is Ava Lee Scott , the veteran immersive performer, who crafted Home of Enchantments -- a piece that blew everyone who saw it away. Then we check in with Andrew Preble of Delaport Ventures, the creator of Saintsbone , and the internationally known ' Escape My Room ' in New Orleans. That's right: it's a double feature show. Advisory: some explicit language. Hosted...
I first met Robin Arnott, CEO of Andromeda Entertainment, at E3 many moons ago when he was showing an audio-based thriller game Deep Sea at the Indiecade booth. It was a true oddity -- a video game without video -- an immersive experience before we were throwing that term around as we now do. In the years since Robin and I have crossed paths on his home turf of Austin -- when I was working a story on indie games for NPR -- at GDC, and Indiecade . In my mind he's always been one of the "weird art...
Join NoPro's Senior AV Content Producer/Festival Correspondent Cara Mandel and Founder Noah Nelson as they trade notes on the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game All of Them Witches , plus some notes on the festival's other immersive offerings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Two. Hundred. Episodes. Two hundred. So how do we celebrate? By getting the gang together -- that being the senior editors -- Kathryn Yu, Anthony Robinson, Jessica Lachenal, and Kevin Gossett together to just chat. Here's to 200 more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Spoiler Warning: elements of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge discussed in the open and close. Host Noah Nelson talks with Victoria Rege conference chair for AR/MR/VR and Maxwell Planck, VR Theatre Director for Siggraph 2019 about upcoming immersive elements at the world's premier entertainment technology conference, which returns to LA July 28 - August 1. Show notes: Otherworld interview , The Why interview . The NoPro Patreon . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
NoPro managing editor Kathryn Yu sits down with Evan Neiden, the creator behind Candle House Collective . The group has been creating ephemeral immersive experiences -- usually for an audience of one -- both in-person and remotely. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We visit Facebook's LA campus to talk with the team behind Vader Immortal , the launch title for the Oculus Quest that finds you captured by the Dark Lord of the Sith and set on a task only you can accomplish. Director Ben Snow, narrative designer Mohen Leo ILMxLAB and Oculus' Colum Slevin (Head of Media, AR/VR Experiences at Facebook) join us to talk about the brand new adventure which debuts this month. Plus: host Noah Nelson's hands-on impressions of Vader Immortal and the Oculus Quest. Read ...
NoPro Executive Editor Kathryn Yu speaks to creators at the Tribeca Film Festival, exploring three different pieces currently showcasing at the Virtual Arcade through May 4. She sits down with Kevin Cornish of Moth + Flame to talk about 2nd Civil War , where participants have the power to change the narrative of the VR film using a voice interface; they also go through an immersive theatre one-on-one with a performer before and after the VR experience. (Note: this interview took place in a busy ...
Friend of the show Landon Zakheim and host Noah Nelson head to a park on a sunny Easter Sunday to talk about horror... um, kinda? We dive into the immersive lineup at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival , which is full of fun surprises this May 30th - June 2nd in New Orleans. Plus: Noah has some personal news. Also: check out the LEIA Immersive Intensive , and a Behind The Scenes essay from Peter Billington of Fable on working with Third Rail Projects on 'Wolves in the Walls,' currently at Tribeca! ...
Writer/Director David Ruzicka ( Creep: Lore , The Willows ) and creative producer Eric Vosmeier join host Noah Nelson to talk about their dark fantasy confection, I want to live in your mouth , that has transmogrified North Hollywood's Zombie Joe's Underground Theater into the stuff of childhood fever dreams. It's a conversation where we dig in deep into the various flavors of horror in immersive, and lessons learned over years of producing. You can also read our own Kevin Gossett's review of th...
The Nest -- which blended elements of escape rooms and podcast dramas -- was one of our favorite shows of 2017. The show's two LA-based creators Jeff Leinenveber and Jarrett Lantz, aka Scout Expedition Co., are bringing the piece back in an extended format this year. This week they launched a Kickstarter campaign that will help with that effort, and they're on the show to tell us about what they have up their sleeve. Show Notes: LA Times Festival of Books: Noah's talk . The Scout Expedition talk...
Co-creators Christoff Visscher ( Cantrip Candles ) and Spencer Williams (Walk The Night) join host Noah Nelson to talk about their new collaboration Tales By Candlelight . This scent guided storytelling experience mixes the best of tabletop roleplaying with an olfactory journey to create an artifact of a place that never was. A place drawn from your imagination. Join us on the trip. Also: if you're in LA this month don't miss our talk at the LA Times Festival of Books or LEIA's Immersive Intensi...
On this very special episode, No Proscenium accepts an invitation into the home of a 'The Willows.' Special thanks to Melinda DeKay, Misha Reeves, and Daniel Montgomery of Just Fix It Productions for helping us unravel the threads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Managing Editor Kathryn Yu goes on the road to Baltimore for a conversation with four of the folks at Submersive Productions : co-artistic directors Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum, as well as artistic associates Susan Stroupe and Lisi Stoessel. Join us as we dig into topics like their devising process, making open world shows, the care and feeding of the audience, telling history “at a slant,” getting the audience to feel complicit during a piece, focusing on diversity and inclusion while making ...
What happens when two Shakespeare nerds decide to ditch the proscenium and start incorporating their love of Dungeons and Dragons, board games, and video games into interactive and improvisational theatre projects? That's the story of Ian McNeely and Austen Anderson of Broken Ghost Immersives who are the co-creators of experiences like The Wake , The Bunker , and Rogues' Gallery . NoPro's Managing Editor and NYC Curator Kathryn chats with Ian and Austen about procedural narrative, putting the au...
From the halls of the Immersive Design Summit to your ears! Guest hosts KJ Knies and Michaela Holland tag in to interview Fri Forjindam of Mycotoo, and we follow that up with an interview of Jenni Cook of Dreamscape Immersive by KJ. It's the first in what will be a handful of episodes emerging from the 2019 IDS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NYC Curator and NoPro Managing Editor Kathryn Yu tracks down the always busy Kellian Adams Pletcher and Brian Pletcher of Green Door Labs for a wide-ranging conversation about the collision of immersive theatre and game design. They discuss Kellian and Brian's work on shows like Club Drosselmeyer and Save the Munbax and how their approach to audience agency and interactive storytelling has changed over the years, as well as touching on topics such as designing diegetic puzzles, allowing the audi...
Seasons change, time passes, friends move away... or up the street. Think Tank Gallery is moving from its home at 939 Maple, the site of many a memory for immersive LA, to a new space at the edge of the Arts District and Little Tokyo. We get together with Jacob Patterson of Think Tank in the podcast studio at the Old Tank one last time to reminisce, talk about ongoing relations with the city of LA, and what's next for Think Tank. Content Advisory: we curse. As we often do. Hosted on Acast. See a...
Managing Editor and NYC Curator Kathryn Yu catches up with Tom Pearson, one of the Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects ( Then She Fell , The Grand Paradise , Ghost Light , Behind the City ) in New York City as the company prepares to launch a new show in DC, Confection . They discuss the creation of Then She Fell , its influence on immersive creators, as well as Tom’s work as an immersive educator, as a poet with The Sandpiper’s Spel l , as a documentary film producer on Between Yourself a...
Little Cinema is a fixture in New York City's art scene, bringing films to life at the House of Yes and the Brooklyn Museum. They've also spread their wings to Bonnaroo, and have crafted a number of immersive premieres for television series from TNT. The latest of these for the series I Am The Night , which debuted this week on the network. We talk with founder Jay Rinsky about the company's arc, the striking work at the heart of the I Am The Night premiere, and forging a path between art and co...
A somber lead topic this week, as we talk about the escape room fire in Poland that left five teenage girls dead earlier this month with our collegues from Room Escape Artist : David & Lisa Spira. That plus notes on their upcoming tours, the immersive Industry Survey we're compiling for an upcoming Industry Report to be released for free during the Immersive Design Summit, and a bit about a special moment at a recent event in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Kathryn gathers up part of the New York City team -- Leah Ableson , Edward Mylechreest , and Michaela Holland -- for one of our patented After Dark episodes. Come along as we meet the team! Then, in LA, Noah finally gets down to an old fashioned rant about price/value. Welcome back! NoPro is a labor of love supported by our amazing Patreon backers , with office facilities provided by Thymele Arts in Los Angeles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
For our fifth anniversary, we wanted to do something special, and we maybe went a little over the top. We hit up Two Bit Circus , where Josh Randall ( Blackout ) co-ordinates immersive experiences and got ahold of Club 01... and kicked the tires on a "late night" format. Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman - the founders of Two Bit Circus are our first guests. Followed by Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas of Capital W , birthday boy Josh Randall (no, really, it was his BIRTHDAY and he did this for us)...
Carl Choi is the founder and CEO of The Great Company , an experiential studio which in the past few years has emerged as a leader in producing and creating space for immersive work in LA. GreatCo teamed up with Jon Braver to produce Delusion and recently played host to Chained: A Victorian Nightmare . Like us, GreatCo is all in on immersive -- keeping the engines running by whatever means necessary while getting great projects out the door. We've been meaning to get Carl on the show for a while...
Hosts Noah Nelson (LA) and Kathryn Yu (NYC) are joined by NoPro's Anthony Robinson (new title: Features Editor) to close out 2018 on this hella long After Dark episode. What? It's a WHOLE YEAR. Warning: Noah curses. We digress. A lot. There's talk of Star Wars land and video games. By EVERYBODY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Samantha Gorman is the co-founder -- along with Danny Cannizzaro -- of Tender Claws , a groundbreaking digital studio that mixes tech, art, and a wry sense of humor to create virtual and augmented reality works that push the narrative boundaries of the medium while maintaining a real heart. No small feat, that. We talk with Samantha about what goes into making their work, focusing on their latest Tendar, and AR app currently available on the Google Play store. Brought to you by listeners like yo...
Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill invites us to her LA studio to check out her VR artwork and talk about how the world of fine art is meshing with the immersive and site-specific movements. Buckle up for one of our patented philosophical conversations! Want to check out Nancy's work for yourself? Check out the 4th Wall AR app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Hey! Just a few quick notes about events and the IDS application process this week. Back to a full episode next week as we round out the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jesse Damiani , longtime friend of the show, drops by to talk about his continuing adventures in the world of XR. (That's virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for those playing the home game.) Recently he curated the art show Spatial Reality , which brought together multiple artists from across the reality spectrum for what was one of the biggest -- if not the biggest -- gatherings of XR art to date. We sit down with Jesse, drink my favorite beer , talk about that show and wax philosophical as ...
