A jam-packed show this week kicks off with a burst of headlines. Then: Ricky Brigante brings us a special report on Immersive Art Experiences featuring voices from Superblue, Meow Wolf, Wonderspaces, and Lighthouse Immersive the producers of the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibits that are popping up across the United States and Canada. [5:25] The latest Immersive 101 segment takes on one of Kathryn's favorite concepts. [17:56] Creative Producer for XR and NoPro Contributor Michaela Ternasky-Holland joi...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 304
This week on the NoPro Review Crew show: Blake makes the case for Spectacle and Mirth's Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos as pick of the week [1:30] Laura explores Cluster at Museum Fiasco inside Las Vegas' Area 15 [9:50] Kevin takes us back to the Blaseball diamond, okay, the interdimensional void but... look it's a whole thing [19:35] Noah swings back to Vegas, virtually, with the Viva Las Vengence VR pop-up in Century City that gets a lot about the Netflix movie Army of the Dead very, very rig...
Jul 29, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 303
This week on the show: Michael Andersen of ARGN.com talks lets us know what's hot in the world of ARGs [4:58] Edward Mylechreest has the Pick of the Week [15:54] Allie Marotta speaks with Regan Linton and Maggie Whittum two theatre artists and disability activists from Denver, Colorado to mark Disability Pride Month [21:23] Kathryn Yu is here with another Immersive 101 lesson [35:19] Amy Ashton of the La Jolla Playhouse talks with us about the upcoming Without Walls pop-up, at San Diego's Libert...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 303
This week the Review Crew gathers under Kevin Gossett's watchful eye to discuss: An update from Patrick on his story from last week [00:50] Madrid Noir (VR, Oculus Platforms) - Patrick [11:20] Endure: Run Woman Show (NYC, Melanie Jones) - Edward [21:40] Every Day I'll Hope (LA, Siobhán O’Loughlin) - Juliet [33:53 For even more from the Crew this week check out the Review Rundown on No Proscenium . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 22, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 302
Writer Daysha Veronica raises the stakes writing the book for the new immersive musical Brassroots District Live in the Lot '73 . In this interview, recorded as part of the production of the lead story on this week's podcast, we get the full lowdown on how she joined the show and what she brought into the mix. Catch the original story in this week's podcast , and catch Brassroots District , now playing in DTLA's Arts District. Or learn more, 1970's style, by dialing (323) 596-1973. Hosted on Aca...
Jul 20, 2021•26 min
This week on the show: We get down with Brassroots District: Live in the Lot '73 [5:05] Check-in with Kent Bye of the Voices of VR Podcast [14:57] Uncover the Review Crew's Pick of the Week [27:30] Chat with designer and author Laura E. Hall about her new book Planning Your Escape [31:50] Drop another edition of Immersive 101 [43:25] Learn all about Iron Game Designer and The Maze on Planet 7 with Indiecade's Sam Roberts [46:33] And a few closing thoughts plus a tease of our panel at the North B...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 302
This week the Review Crew tackles: Candle House Collective - Lovers Anonymous (Online), reviewed by Kathryn Yu Shadow of the Run presents Dreamwalkers (Cleveland, Ohio), reviewed by Patrick McLean Brassroots District (Los Angeles), reviewed by Kevin Gossett Brian Sander's JUNK presents Dragonbutter (Philidelphia), reviewed by Blake Weil Hosted by Noah Nelson For more from the crew check out this week's Immersive Review Rundown which features nine reviews from across the United States. Hosted on ...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 301
The first of our "Overtime" series of podcasts, this is the second half of our interview with Gayatri Parameswaran & Felix Gaedtke of NowHere Media -- the creators of Kusunda, which won the Storyscapes Grand Jury Prize for best Virtual Reality Storytelling at Tribeca Immersive in June. For the first part of the interview, check of episode 301 of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 13, 2021•26 min
Now available for all! The NoPro Review Crew meets every week to swap stories about the immersive art & entertainment they've been exploring. These discussions, hosted by a rotating crew led by NoPro LA Reviews Editor Kevin Gossett, are recorded each week in the NoPro Discord and can be attended LIVE. Previously a Patreon Backer exclusive, the NEW ERA of the NoPro Podcast means that the Crew will be here in the main feed each week. This week on the Crew: Edward Mylechreest on Know Thyself (J...
Jul 11, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 301
The first episode of the new era. NoPro is now in magazine show format! In this edition we: Take a trip to Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart (00:01:52) Check-in with our friends at Room Escape Artist (00:12:43) Meet Gayatri Parameswaran & Felix Gaedtke, the creators of the award-winning VR documentary Kusunda (00: 22:12) Get the NoPro Review Crew’s Pick Of The Week (00:34:01) Immersive 101: (00:36:33) Authors Austin Grossman, Sean Stewart, and Neal Stephenson, creators of the Audible Audio Drama New Fo...
Jul 10, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 301
The new era of the NoPro Podcast begins on July 9th, and this week we're going to give you a taste. Check out all we do at No Proscenium and Everything Immersive . Brought to you by our generous Patreon backers. This minisode features music by Chris Porter, and sound effects courtesy of freesound.org , including tracks by users supadoh, Racche, and kyles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 02, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 300
300 Three Hundred It's difficult to fathom. So to help we brought along Kathryn, Anthony, Kevin, Leah, Laura, Blake, Michaela, Juliet, and Patrick to reminisce about how they got started in immersive, and with us. About where things are going as we dust ourselves off and ready for a new era... and about just what the podcast is going to become. The End Of An Era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 300
This week Siobhán O'Loughlin, creator of Broken Bone Bathtub and the Please Don't Touch The Artist online series joins host Noah Nelson to talk about PDT and her upcoming new in-person show in Los Angeles called Every Day I'll Hope . Special guest appuurance by Detective Munch, the cat. (Listen close!) Show Notes Siobhán O'Loughlin - Events Tribeca Diary Tribeca Coverage Kickoff Review Rundown Call Sheet LEIA LA Meetup NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 299
This week we talk with creators from two incredible projects in Tribeca Immersive -- Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, and Yasmin Elayat join us from the VR narrative series 'The Changing Same,' which views the long history of racial injustice in America through the lens of magical realism, while Lady PheOnix and Sutu talk with us about celebrating the life of Breonna Taylor by planting 'Breonna's Garden' in augmented reality. It's a double feature from the Tribeca Film Fest! Show Notes The Chan...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 298
Innerspace VR co-founder Balthazar Auxietre and writer Rob Morgan join us to talk about Maskmaker , the new game from Innerspace published by MWM Interactive that puts players into the role of an apprentice mask maker who must unravel the mystery that haunts a magical island ruled by the master mask maker Prospero. Show Notes Maskmaker Innerspace VR Brassroots DIstrict: The Opening Act For LA's Immersive Summer (Q&A) The (Two Bit) Circus Is Back In Town (Q&A) Pop-Up Magazine Hits The Str...
Jun 04, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 297
2020 was a long year for everyone, and especially so for Paige Solomon CEO & Creative Director of DTLA's Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel. The attraction's opening night was planned for the very night that everything shut down in California, and the project remained in limbo until opening last month. We talk with Solomon and with the Motel's Director of Theatrical Experience, Claire Chapelli, from INSIDE the Motel -- our first in-person interview in over a year -- about the long(er than expecte...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 296
This week choreographer and creator Koryn Wicks ( I Love You Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH ; Casting ) and her collaborators from Willing Kompany participated in an online Forum centering on the ideas discussed in her recent three-part Crafting Immersive series on No Pro. This recording effectively becomes the fourth part of the series, and features both the company member's thoughts and questions from other Forum attendees. Show Notes Willing Kompany Crafting Immersive Pt. 1: Making It Physical Cra...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 18 min
These days Leila Amirsadeghi is with a Senior Program Manager with the Mixed Reality Team at Microsoft for AltSpaceVR, which she joined after being part of the team for the PGA Award-winning BRCvr that brought Burning Man into AltSpace. She's also one of the creators of The Unreal Garden, a mixed reality experience that made its debut at OneDome in San Francisco during the Before Times, and that will be returning in a new form this year. We crack into all of that and more in this episode. SHOW N...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 295
A little over a year ago novelist Matt Ruff (Lovecraft Country) and journalist Blake Collier reached out to us. They were doing a podcast to promote Matt's new novel, 88 Names, which is set in a world where virtual reality is a lot further along than our own. They wanted to talk about the creative side of it all with us. It was a grand time. Now, after a most unexpected year and two seasons of the podcast, Blake and Matt have wrapped up their show and we asked them to come on our show and talk a...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 294
LA's Serial Killer Speed Dating , which put a little immersive horror twist on the speed dating format, has created not one but TWO online versions over the course of the pandemic. The first was the Zoom series, which adapted the live show to everyone's favorite video chat platform and the latest is a Clubhouse-based game show, which is now part of the Clubhouse CREATOR FIRST pilot program which will see some lucky producers get their shows picked up for development by the social audio app. Will...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Javaad Alipoor is the co-director, writer, and one of the performers of Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran , an incredible multi-media theatre piece that links a constellation of Big Ideas into an incredibly human story. The docudrama starts with the real-life story of a doomed love affair between two of Iran's young rich elite, and then invites the audience to peel back the layers of the story to see the massive historical underpinnings that led to a devastating accident. Alipoor ...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 293
Sherwood & Nottingham co-creator/director Nick Rheinwald-Jones and Supervising Creative Producer Shoshanna Green join host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming second season of the Robin Hood-themed alternate reality roleplaying experience. Show Notes SpyBrunch The Rundown The NoPro Discord Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 01, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 292
For the last session of this March's Spring Fling, we asked a few folks we knew had projects coming up to come give us a sneak peek, Comic-Con Hall H style. Here's the line-up: Paige Solomon of LA's Madcap Motel Actor & Creative Director Dasha Kittredge on OnBoard and more Stephen Butchko, Braden Roy and Danielle Levesque on Welcome To Respite VR Designer & Producer David Ruzicka of Hidden Worlds Entertainment It's an exciting cross-section of IRL and URL projects that show the breadth o...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 291
Stand With Asians is a community call to action that kicked off with a day of protest and programming on March 26, 2021 as a direct response to the mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16th, which came after a year of rising violence and discrimination targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities here in the United States. Carl Choi of GreatCo. reached out to us about putting together a community event as part of the SWA programming that day which would speak to the immersive creat...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 54 min
It's been a minute! Noah and Kathryn are joined by Patrick McLean (NoPro Chicago) and first time on the podcast Leah Davis (NoPro New England) to talk about what's been giving us hope of late. Show Notes The Window (Review) Into The Mist SXSW 2021 Diary Under The Freeways of Los Angeles The NoPro Discord Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 290
This week: just a quick touch-base about the media created for the Spring Fling , our Discord , and all the various community projects that are ongoing including the work of Stand With Asians , LEIA , and Artizen's Black Realities Grant . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 02, 2021•21 min
Artizen is a community-powered grant platform that began as a project of Kaleidoscope, the immersive production studio that has navigated countless projects through the stormy seas of VR. René Pinnell, founder and designer of Artizen, talks with us about the new platform's plans – including becoming community-governed – and we get into some of the cutting-edge issues of creative technology to boot! SHOW NOTES Artizen Kaleidoscope #StandWithAsians (Clubhouse Event March 26th) The NoPro Discord SP...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 289
Courtney Nichols & Blakeshine are the co-founders of Of The Night , a new experiential party-in-a-box company that evolved out of Nichols' work in LA – the beloved Disco Dining Club – and Blakeshine's work on the music festival circuit creating large scale experiences. Now they're taking a pandemic era project which delivered parties for two in LA and turning it into a nationwide service via the crowdfunding platform iFundWomen . We get into the background and the pivots on this week's show....
Mar 19, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 288
Working out of England, Lou Doye is an executive producer in the immersive field whose projects often mix immersive theatre and immersive tech. Projects where XR meets the boards. She's also one of my favorite people to talk to, having met while working on the board for the Artizen Transformations Grant. On this episode of the show, Lou and I talk the business of immersive and as always it's an education for me. Plus a little bit about what The RSC's Dream was before the pandemic pivot. Show Not...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Violeta Ayala's Prison X — Chapter 1: The Devil and The Sun , stunned us at Sundance this year. The Quechua film and theatre-maker blended lessons learned from those disciplines to put the audience inside a Neo-Andean myth via VR. ( Check out our enthusiastic review. ) This week's episode is a wide-ranging discussion with the creator about how she brought the work to life, and the powerful themes that flow through this mix of myth, theatre, and technology. Show Notes Prison X Violeta Ayala on Tw...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 286
