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 . SHOW NOTES Review Rundown for 10.17.23 ...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 413
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. SHOW NOTES Gray Area Gray Area Festival Leonardo Recoding CripTec...
Oct 13, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 412
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 e...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 411
This week on the show, Jessica Kubzansky , the writer & director of Measure STILL for Measur e, which is currently in its premiere run at Boston Court Pasadena joins us to talk about making a site-specific meta-theatrical play out of one of Shakespeare’s problem plays about a very problematic theatre production. Yes, that’s right, it’s a theatre nerd episode and we really, really go there. SHOW NOTES Measure STILL For Measure Carving Out a Slice of Theatre Life at ‘Measure STILL for Measure’...
Sep 27, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 410
This week on the show we talk with NoPro's Toronto curator Katrina Lat about her coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023, where she caught 57 of the 3553 shows that sprung up around the city this August. You can check out her written coverage in the show notes. Plus: in the back matter host Noah J. Nelson goes long on LA's Angel of Light & Knott's Scary Farm's 50th Anniversary. SHOW NOTES Edinburgh Festival Fringe Diary 2023: Festival Overview The Best Immersive at Edinburgh Festival ...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 409
This week an old fashioned double header as we cover two very different events in the Southland. First, Carey Lovelace, Founder of Visions 2030 will be on hand to talk about Vision 2030 Earth Edition Festival, which is unfolding on the campus of CalArts in Valencia. Then Sarah Mann of Madmann’s Playground and performer & poet Katie Rediger join us to talk about Van Helsing’s Dracula, their upcoming collaboration which mixes circus arts and dining, and turns the Dracula story on it’s head. SH...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 408
This week on the show we’re joined by Terry Pettigrew-Rolapp & Tommy Wallach, the owners of Hatch Escapes and the creators of Lab Rat, here in Los Angeles, the boxed puzzle story experience Mother of Frankenstein , and the long anticipated The Ladder , also in LA and on the set of which we spoke with the pair. SHOW NOTES Hatch Escapes (Lab Rat, The Nest, The Ladder) Mother of Frankenstein Everything Immersive This Week (LinkedIn) Call Sheet September 2023 Everything Immersive (Website) Lucid...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 407
Venice Immersive, the biggest festival showcase of augmented & virtual reality projects in the world, has returned as part of the Venice International Film Festival and so too has our annual check-in with programmers Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal to talk not only about the festival's line-up but the state of digital immersive as a whole. Show Notes Venice Immersive Lineup Sen (Venice Immersive) Complex 7 (Venice Immersive) Fatboy Slim – Eat, Sleep, VR, Repeat (Venice Immersive) Everything...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 406
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 Par...
Aug 25, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 405
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 Revi...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 404
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 to...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 403
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 story telling and story building , and the role Dungeons & Dragons plays in the design philosophy behind impossible experiences involving Star Wars , Ghostbusters , and Jumanji ...
Aug 04, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 402
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 This episode's recording session is brought to you by… the ...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 401
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 f...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 400
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 o...
Jul 14, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 399
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Jul 13, 2023•2 min
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 ...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 398
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 D...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 397
This week: a DOUBLE FEATURE. First: our good friend Monica Miklas joins us to talk about a career arc that has taken her from indie work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival to being a senior manager of creative direction at RWS Entertainment, one of the biggest themed entertainment companies in the world, working on everything from haunts to cruise ships. Then we take a leap over into the digital realm and talk with Clement Deneux and Michael Masukawa of Atlas V about MONSTRORAMA, a Tribeca Immersi...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 23 min
This week a true rarity — a SEQUEL. This week we’re following up last week’s minisode with a conversation with my former colleague — entrepreneur and technologist — Kurt Collins about just what Apple is really up to with the Vision Pro. SHOW NOTES Kurt Collins on Bluesky No Proscenium on Bluesky Noah J. Nelson on Bluesky Meow Wolf's The Real Unreal (Grapevine, Texas) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 395
This week, as we catch our breath after The Next Stage, host Noah Nelson shares his impressions – and concerns – about the Apple Vision Pro announcement and then pivots to talk about two pieces in this year's Tribeca Immersive – The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend and MONSTRORAMA – both of which are being showcased this at the festival through June 17th. SHOW NOTES First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS - Daring Fireball Apple’s Messi Vision - 500ish The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend -...
Jun 09, 2023•35 min
This week on the show Lucas Martell of Mighty Coconut, the creators of Walkabout Mini Golf, is with us to talk about the present and future of one of our absolute favorite things to do. SHOW NOTES Mighty Coconut Walkabout Mini Golf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 02, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 394
Joining us on the show this week is Erin Reilly Founding Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Immersive Institute at the Moody College of Communication. She's here to tell us about the program there and how the next generation of immersive creators is using emerging technology to create deeply human stories. SHOW NOTES Texas Immersive Institute The Next Stage Immersive Summit The Review Rundown The Immersive 5 w/Terence Leclere of #metaforyou Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
May 26, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 393
This week on the show we welcome Nataki Garrett and Scarlett Kim of Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Latoya Peterson of Glow Up Games to talk about Hella Iambic the collaboration between the famed theatre company and the game studio that has previously worked with the likes of HBO on creating original games based on existing works. The existing work in this case is Shakespeare’s best known play Romeo & Juliet , and the Hella Iambic app is adding a whole new dimension later this month to OSF’s...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 392
This week on the show Evan Neiden, the founder of Candle House Collective — the makers of telephone-based experiences like the award-winning CLAWS and the serialized Lennox Mutual joins us. Evan and host Noah Nelson go one-on-one in this episode, but keep your ears on the feed for some bonus material soon that features a deep dive with the Review Crew and the Candle House Collective on Lennox Mutual . SHOW NOTES Candle House Collective CLAWS Lennox Mutual The Next Stage Immersive Summit Review R...
May 12, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 391
NoPro Arts Editor Laura Hess joins host Noah Nelson to trade notes on their experiences at the 2023 Without Walls Festival, a production of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. That includes stops at A Shared Space , Brassroots District , Fair Trade , Cleaning The Stables , and La Lucha . Show Notes Without Walls 2023 A Shared Space Fair Trade Brassroots District Cleaning The Stables La Lucha A Saturday That Wow'd (A NoPro Diary) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 05, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 390
This week on the show we're joined by Terence Leclere & Dasha Kittredge, two thirds of the core team at #metaforyou, the actor led immersive services company whose work can be found in marketing & brand activations from coast to coast. LA immersive heads know Terence and Dasha as two of the powerhouse performers on the LA immersive scene, so it should come as no surprise that the conversation to follow goes long on talking about acting and the art of immersive often in the context of a b...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 389
Director Steven Calcote is a partner at Butcher Bird Studios and has created all kinds of projects for the likes of Legendary Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, BBC America and more… but today we're going to talk about Making It VRy Big, BuzzFeed’s giant-sized food show which he shot in the 180 VR format and which you can find on Meta Quest TV. The topics at hand include how to make a 180 VR video feel connected to the audience, and just what happens to a film set when a 30 lbs cinnamon roll ...
Apr 21, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 388
Without Walls Festival Producer Amy Ashton and Director of Experiences and Activations Mia Fiorella join us to talk about this year's festival, as the La Jolla Playhouse produced event in San Diego moves to an annual schedule, goes free for all, and enjoys a partnership with the San Diego Symphony at the home at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. The festival runs April 27-30th. Show Notes Without Walls Festival The Next Stage Immersive Summit REA Los Angeles Escape Room Meetup (April 17th) TEA x Im...
Apr 14, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 387
This week we're joined by Graham Wetterhahn, Sara Beil, and KJ Knies of After Hours Theatre Company to talk about The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, their current collaboration with the Shakespeare Center LA. The gang at After Hours Theatre Company are some of our favorite people to talk shop with. Show Notes The Tempest: An Immersive Experience After Hours Theatre Company Shakespeare Center LA Next Stage: Spotlight Sessions & Deep Dives Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells w/ Jenn Wong & Noah Nelson...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 386
