This week - NoPro arts editor Laura Hess hops into the host chair for a conversation with New England curator Leah Davis and London curator Shelley Snyder. The topic at hand? A look at Installation art and how different environments impact audience engagement. For this time out the Crew will focus on Outernet’s NOW Building installations in London and works at MASS MOCA in Western Massachusetts. And after our main segment, some thoughts on the big news of the week: the closure of Sleep No...

This episode was recorded LIVE at The Roguelike Tavern in Burbank. Joining us were Matt Bamberg-Johnson and Chris Porter of LA’s The Speakeasy Society who came to share word about Winter Fest OC, coming up later this month in Costa Mesa and featuring all new immersive work from the beloved LA theatre collective. Then we pull John McCormick, owner of The Roguelike Tavern, away from the bar to tell The Roguelike's origin story of the bar and spotlight the immersive & interactive attractions...

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 10.17.23Love...

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 AreaGray Area FestivalLeonardoRecoding...

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...

This week on the show, Jessica Kubzansky, the writer & director of Measure STILL for Measure, 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 MeasureCarving Out a Slice of Theatre Life at ‘Measure STILL for...

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 OverviewThe Best Immersive at Edinburgh...

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...

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 FrankensteinEverything Immersive This Week (LinkedIn)Call Sheet September 2023Everything Immersive (Website)Lucid...

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 LineupSen (Venice Immersive)Complex 7 (Venice Immersive)Fatboy Slim – Eat, Sleep, VR, Repeat (Venice Immersive)Everything...

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...

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 RoomIRL Experience Creators Society (Austin)Huis Ten Bosch Theme ParkMike's write up of Huis Ten BoschEverything Immersive This Week (LinkedIn Version)Everything Immersive This Week (EI Version)Review Rundown for 8.16.23The Immersive 5 w/Jennine WillettPatrick's Port of Entry...

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...

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...

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 VRTOFIVARSTitan HapticsGames by StitchDerek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare This episode's recording session is brought to you by… the...

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...

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...

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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 NOTESPostCuriousThreads of FateThe Morrison Game Factory“Transformational Experiences” Are The New Buzzword, But Are You Making Change Or Just Selling It?The...

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 DANCEWE BUILD HOUSES HERENoPro’s 10 Most Anticipated New Works of 2023 (Part II)Stoking Vegas’ Immersive Flame: Lost Spirits...

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...

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 BlueskyNo Proscenium on BlueskyNoah J. Nelson on BlueskyMeow Wolf's The Real Unreal (Grapevine, Texas) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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 CoconutWalkabout Mini Golf Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 InstituteThe Next Stage Immersive SummitThe Review RundownThe Immersive 5 w/Terence Leclere of #metaforyou Get bonus content on Patreon ...