Arlekin Players Theatre | (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab’s The Orchard /an public sale/ is the most recent manufacturing from Igor Golyak, Arlekin Players, and (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. It is hybrid with two totally different productions: dwell in-person and dwell and interactive on-line concurrently.
The Orchard /an public sale/, a brand new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, options Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov in addition to an enormous robotic, quadruped robotic canine, hologauze and projections, video results, Bird-Dog PTZ cameras, a dwell on-line “auction,” and a streamed-in-real-time interactive on-line expertise which could be accessed from anyplace on the planet.
Join Igor Golyak and his group of collaborators for a dialog about experimentation; uncommon functions of rising applied sciences; what they’re studying about viewers habits and interactivity; and dealing with companions throughout cultures, platforms, and artwork varieties to create dwell, in-person, hybrid, and digital theatre. This dialog livestreams on the commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV community on Saturday 12 November 2022 at 12:45 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 2:45 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 3:45 p.m. EST (Boston, UTC -5) / 20:45 GMT (London, UTC -0) / 21:45 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).
Panelists
- The dialog can be moderated by Nick Sexauer, steward of moonshots and agent of chaotic good at X: The Moonshot Factory, GoogleX.
- Tom Abernathy, narrative designer
- Eric Dunlap, digital camera, results, and streaming designer
- Eamon Drew, co-founder and CMO of BirdDog
- Igor Golyak, inventive director, Arlekin Players and (zero-G) Lab
- Adam Paikowsky, dotdotdash.io
- Magda Romanska, Principal Researched, metaLAB (at) Harvard and futureStage Project
Panelist Bios
Nick Sexauer is a program supervisor within the early pipeline at X: The Moonshot Factory, the group behind self-driving vehicles, self-flying supply automobiles, power kites, and web from balloons. He has made a profession of harnessing chaos and creating order which he at present does on one of many early pipeline groups at X, stewarding new moonshots into existence. Prior to X, Nick spent twelve years working within the leisure trade doing manufacturing administration on characteristic movies for Paramount Pictures earlier than touchdown in visible results administration at Lucasfilm engaged on the Star Wars franchise. He holds a BS in movie and tv manufacturing and minors in physics and philosophy from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He has a deep ardour for fostering play within the office, storytelling, and holding artistic revolutionary pondering a day by day observe.
Tom Abernathy is an award-winning author, interactive narrative designer/director, filmmaker, theatre director, musician, and recovering little one actor. Arlekin audiences know him as the author of the interactive script within the New York Times Critics’ Pick chekhovOS/ an experimental recreation. Highlights of his trailblazing, twenty-five-year profession conceiving and defining interactive storytelling embrace Guild Wars 2 (ArenaNet/NCSoft), The Division (Massive/Ubisoft), League of Legends (Riot), Halo: Reach (Bungie/Microsoft), The Saboteur (Pandemic/EA), and Destroy All Humans! (Pandemic/THQ)—the primary online game ever to be lined within the New York Times particularly for its writing and sociopolitical satire. Film writing credit embrace Bad Country (Sony Pictures) starring Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Tom additionally sits on the advisory board of the Game Narrative Summit on the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the interactive’s greatest annual trade gathering. Born and raised in Atlanta, he now lives in Seattle together with his spouse and daughter.
Eric Dunlap has created video designs for dance and theatre, interactive video installations for museums, and dwell combine video performances for live shows and particular occasions. A former dancer, choreographer, and producer from New York, he at present lives in Berlin the place he pursues his work as a video artist. A thirty-year veteran of the performing arts, he spent his childhood as a precept dancer with the Alwin Nikolais/Murray Louis Dance Company, and has danced with varied trendy dance and opera firms. He was co-founder and govt director of Forward Motion Theater from 1995–2012. Pursuing a mission to discover motion and know-how, the corporate created works combining bodily efficiency and digital media, produced VJs and audiovisual artists, and curated collaborations in multi-media efficiency. Since shifting to Berlin in 2011, he works as a video designer and technician and continues to construct works combining dance and video. Two of his new video artwork works have been acquired by the Leo Kuelbs Collection as part of their “Digital Fairytales” sequence, and he was not too long ago awarded a analysis grant to discover dance and interactivity as part of Berlin’s Neustart Kultur Fund. Recent video designs embrace the world premiere of “Die Machine Steht Nicht Still” with Caroline Peters and “LEDWALD,” produced by the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), and “Sich waffnend gegen eine See von Plagen” produced by the Schaubühne in Berlin.
Igor Golyak is the founder and producing inventive director of Arlekin Players Theatre and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. A world chief within the digital theatre motion, he directed WITNESS, chekhovOS /an experimental recreation/, and State vs. Natasha Banina throughout the pandemic, which turned worldwide digital theatre sensations, receiving a number of New York Times Critic’s Picks. His work has acquired quite a few Elliot Norton Awards for The Seagull, The Stone, and Dead Man’s Diary, together with a Best Director Award, This Week In New York Pandemic Awards (WITNESS and chekhovOS), and Broadway World’s Best Director of a Streamed Production Award (chekhovOS). He directed a critically acclaimed The Merchant of Venice for Actors’ Shakespeare Project; productions at Northeastern University and Boston Conservatory at Berklee; and has taught at Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Harvard University, Lesley College, Wellesley College, New England Theater Conference, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts/Middlesex University, Moscow Specialized Institute for the Arts, and the ARBOS Theatre Festival. Golyak is from Ukraine and leads Arlekin, an organization of immigrants which has carried out everywhere in the world, together with festivals in Ukraine, Yerevan, Armenia, New York City, Chicago, Lviv, Monaco, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the Moscow Art Theatre.
Adam Paikowsky, is an engineer and artist having labored on varied business and cultural tasks over the previous decade. Currently he leads the artistic know-how observe on the innovation company dotdotdash. He usually works on tasks that sit on the intersection of software program growth, {hardware} engineering, digital fabrication, and architectural and interplay design. He makes use of digital instruments to create for and lengthen the bodily world. With a background in fantastic arts and know-how, he brings a novel perspective to the group. Leveraging a deep information within the growth and integration of A/V media programs and specializing in lighting, media playback, sensor management and kinetic motion he has labored for purchasers such because the Empire State Building, Massive Attack, Nicolas Jaar, the North Face, Prada, Microsoft, and Cartier.
Magda Romanska is a professor of theatre at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and principal at metaLAB at Harvard. She can also be the chair of the Transmedia Arts seminar at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center, the place she curates a sequence of lectures on transmedia arts. She serves on the advisory board of DigitalTheatre+ and is a member of Leonardo, the worldwide society for the humanities, sciences, and know-how. At Harvard, she can also be a analysis affiliate on the Center for European Studies and on the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is the founder, govt director, and editor-in-chief of TheTheatreTimes.com, the biggest world digital theatre portal. In this position, she leads a group of over 150 regional managing editors worldwide, overlaying theatre in over 90 international locations and areas. The Theatre Times launched Performap.org, an interactive digital map of theatre festivals, funded via the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and an LMDA Innovation Grant; and the International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF), a yearly streaming world theatre competition, which up to now has reached over 1,000,000 members. In 2021, the IOTF received a second-place Culture Online International Award for Best Online Project, chosen amongst 452 tasks from 20 international locations.