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Episode 246: Maxwell Planck of Adventure Lab Apr 25, 2020

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The last time we spoke with Adventure Lab CEO Maxwell Planck it was about Siggraph 2019. Now he's back to discuss his own work, the upcoming -- and totally awesome -- Dr. Crumb's School for Disobedient Pets.

We get into that and the odd place that VR finds itself in at this moment: ready for all kinds of new experiences.

Episode 245: Soundself and Technodelics w/ Robin Arnott & Lyle Maxson Apr 17, 2020

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I've been tracking Robin Arnott's SoundSelf for forever. Now, after taking a variety of forms, the experience -- which Arnott calls a technodelic -- is coming home in both VR and PCs.

We catch up with Arnott, who formed the company Andromeda Entertainment to explore transformational experiences, and Andromeda's Chief Strategy Officer Lyle Maxson to talk about the upcoming release of SoundSelf, technodelics, adventures in mind expansion in the Oregon forest, and the strange landscape experiential work finds itself in now. Show Notes Robin Arnott's The Technodelic Manifesto

The Coronation - Charles Eisenstein Immersive for 'Indoor Kids' Vol 5.: Where The Audience Is

Episode 244: Mikhael Tara Garver is HERE (The AMA) Apr 10, 2020

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Originally scheduled as the Horizon keynote speaker for the second day of the HERE Summit, Mikhael Tara Garver is the Head of Experiential Entertainment for Category 41, a "global experience company that creates, incubates and syndicates location-based experiences."

She's also a long time friend of the show and one of the few people whose careers in immersive & experiential has stretched long and wide enough to gain true perspective on this always-changing domain.

In lieu of the speech, we took to the HERE Discord on March 28th and opened the floor up for an Ask Me Anything session. This is the result.

Episode 243: Sarah Ellis of the Royal Shakespeare Company Apr 04, 2020

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Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was originally scheduled as one of our featured speakers at the HERE Summit.

Since we're all on lockdown, Sarah joined us on the HERE Discord to talk about the innovative immersive work that the RSC has been exploring of late, and discusses how the current crisis is shaping some of the thinking the RSC has around digital and physical immersive projects.

Plus: thanks to the show being recorded via Discord, we take questions from the audience live on air. You can get in on that action in the future by becoming a backer of the NoPro Patreon.

Looking for immersive to explore from home? Check out Now Playing: Immersive for 'Indoor Kids' and Indoor Kids Vol. 3: Games Galore, both mentioned today on the 'cast.

Episode 242: Shawn Taylor Mar 27, 2020

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Story Engineer Shawn Taylor, a founding author of www.thenerdsofcolor.org, and a founding organizer of the Black Comix Arts Festival, first hit my radar at the 2019 IDS thanks to Mikhael Tara Garver. Shawn brought a perspective that was rooted in pluralism and the power of story to move people to action... and at that moment I knew I had to get him on the show/get him back on our stage. Well, 2020 is being all 2020, so the chance to get him on the stage was taken from us for now, but we still find a way via the newly minted HERE Discord. Post Show Notes: Recommended Reading/Viewing from Shawn Books Hero With An African Face - Clyde W. Ford Rabbit in the Face of the Moon - Alfredo Lopez Austine Oven Ready Chaos - Phil Hine Film The Last Angel of History - John Akomfrah

Episode 241: The One Where The Gang Tries Discord Mar 20, 2020

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It's an all-Everything Immersive episode with two segments.

Noah and Kathryn are in both, and for round one are joined by Ricky Brigante (Pseudonym Productions), David Spira (Room Escape Artist), and No Pro's VR correspondent Will Cherry.

For round two we change teams and No Pro team members Cara Mandel and Anthony Robinson join us.

It's kinda like an After Dark episode, but not. Everything is on the table this time out. Recorded in front of a "live" Discord audience.

Content Advisory: cursing, and a discussion of different content delivery platforms that, indeed, mentions porn. Hey: it's the Internet. Show Notes: Now Playing: Immersive For 'Indoor Kids' Cara Mandel’s Indoor Kids Activity Guide The NoPro Slack (gateway to the HERE Discord) LEIA Relief Fund for Artists

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Episode 240: We'll get tHERE Mar 13, 2020

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A special, host only, edition of the podcast that addresses both the postponement of the HERE Summit & Festival and our craft's ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Show notes: COVID-19 & Freelance Artists (h/t to Michael Jung for sharing on FB.)

Sorry for the rambling nature, it's been a WEEK, y'all.

Episode 239: Everyone Agrees It's About To Explode Mar 06, 2020

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We talk with actor Katie Peabody and actor/Ceaseless Fun company member Scott Monahan about the upcoming Everyone Agrees It's About To Explode, the new immersive show from Ceaseless Fun (Agnosia, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Regan) set inside a cell of revolutionary activists. The show opens March 12th in LA.

Episode 238: DTLA's Alamo Drafthouse Goes Immersive Feb 28, 2020

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Film fans know the Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin theater chain which has set the bar for transforming the experience of going to the movies.

For years Los Angeles anticipated the arrival of the Drafthouse, and it seems to have been well worth the wait. From rowdy screenings of CATS which have since swept the nation to full-on ARGs there's something special happening at the DTLA Drafthouse. Host Noah Nelson talks with Ash Minnick, who handles the programming inside the Video Vortex, which we've come to think of as "LA's neighborhood movie bar" on the eve of their immersive EMMA. tea party.

Plus: you can check out the HERE Programming Guide.

Episode 237: Jessica Creane of IKantKoan Games Feb 21, 2020

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NoPro's Executive Editor Kathryn Yu speaks to multi-hyphenate artist Jessica Creane of IKantKoan Games, the creator of immersive shows such as Chaos Theory and Know Thyself.

They discuss the collision of theatre and games, audience agency, designing for meaningful choice, what keeps her going as an artist, creating safe spaces using immersive theatre, how her work bleeds into everyday life, as well as (spoiler) the time she cut off all her hair in front of a live audience. Catch Jessica as Dr. Genevieve Saoch in Chaos Theory at Caveat in New York City on March 5, April 2, and May 7.

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