autoteatro – F15 54-498/54-798/60-446/60-746: Expanded Theater https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015 Carnegie Mellon University, IDEATE Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:25:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 “Sad Portland” by MYNDWYRM/Ben Gansky (2012) https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/sad-portland-by-myndwyrmben-gansky-2012/ https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/sad-portland-by-myndwyrmben-gansky-2012/#respond Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:23:21 +0000 http://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/mediadesign/f15/54-498/?p=10169 Sad Portland is an phone-based interactive piece made for the South-East neighborhood of Portland. A flyer depicts a map of the area, highlighting a cemetery, along with a drawing of two tombstones whose numerals have been replaced with symbols. At the bottom of the page, a ten-digit phone number features these same signals instead of numerals. If a person chooses to play, they will go to the cemetery on the map, find the tombstones in the drawing, and substitute the numbers of the tombstones for the symbols, calling the Sad Portland Hotline. At this point, they encounter a robotic voice giving them options (“If you are in the cemetery, press 1; if you are in the schoolyard, press 2; if you are in the abandoned lot, press 3; for Sad Portland radio, press 4” etc). There are over 5 hours of content to explore; approximately 50 people participated in the piece over the course of several weeks.

I chose this piece to represent two related skill sets, one abstract and one specific. Specifically, myself along with the MYNDWYRM collective of artists built this piece in Twilio, a web-based phone automation system. (We used OpenVBX for ease of use.) So I have experience building interactions and systems in Twilio/OpenVBX.

Secondly, this piece is one of about a dozen fully realized works I have made that focus on participation and interaction at the border of live gaming and performance.

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]]> https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/sad-portland-by-myndwyrmben-gansky-2012/feed/ 0 “The Extra People” by Ant Hampton (2015) https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/the-extra-people-by-ant-hampton-2015/ https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/the-extra-people-by-ant-hampton-2015/#respond Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:41:16 +0000 http://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/mediadesign/f15/54-498/?p=10150 A part of his ongoing series of performance pieces (called autoteatro) exploring interaction and “self-sufficient” performance, The Extra People is a site-specific and immersive performance for large theatres, where 15 audience members sit in the seats and watch another 15 on stage. The ‘audience’ members wear headphones; they hear the audio equivalent of optical illusions–binaural recordings made from the exact location they now occupy. What they hear seems to be movement and activity around the theater. They are instructed over their headphones to illuminate certain parts of the theater with their (provided) flashlights. The ‘on-stage’ participants are glimpsed, mysteriously. After half an hour, the ‘audience’ members find themselves replacing those on stage, only to discover that another 15 have appeared in the seats they’ve left behind. The piece cycles this way, for hours on end.

 

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