Category: community

  • What is Interactive?

    What is Interactive?

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    In the middle of the pandemic circa 2021, alone at home and away from physical spaces and people, I spent a few months with a group of people I’d never met in person, gathering in VR to be together, face each other, perform with one another.

  • Risks in Interactive Performance

    Risks in Interactive Performance

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    Let me tell you about how I got into this mess. When I met Jeff Wirth 20 years ago, he was in the middle of producing an experience in conjunction with UCF’s stage production of God’s Country, a play by Steven Dietz about the white supremacist militia movement of the late 1980s. It’s the story…

  • A Spark Ignited

    A Spark Ignited

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    Last October, 600 people gathered at a convention created to celebrate the now-closed interactive and immersive experience of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Formerly a 2-day journey aboard a spaceship named the Halcyon, the Starcruiser pulled from many existing interaction types—grand spectacle shout-outs, intimate moments between characters and guests, mobile app choices that influence in-person events,…