TendAR,
an augmented reality collaboration with Tender Claws
Piehole's been working on a very new type of project with our friends over at Tender Claws (Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro): TendAR, an augmented reality app, features a small fish ("Guppy") who lives inside a tank in your smartphone, growing more sentient and curious about the human world by the day. You are Guppy's one and only guide to this overwhelmingly complex world, and—oh yeah, Guppy lives by subsisting off your (and your friends' and family's) facial expressions of emotion, so don't forget to feed it! What will happen as Guppy begins to understand the human world and itself better? Will achieving sentience offer liberation, or is being a self-aware fish in a phone too freaky to bear?
Drawing on our experiences blurring boundaries in theater—between audience and performer, fiction and "real life," inanimate and living, joke and mistake—in this new digital context, has been immensely gratifying and expansive for us. We can't wait to join Tender Claws in sharing Guppy with you!
Drawing on our experiences blurring boundaries in theater—between audience and performer, fiction and "real life," inanimate and living, joke and mistake—in this new digital context, has been immensely gratifying and expansive for us. We can't wait to join Tender Claws in sharing Guppy with you!
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We recently traveled with Tender Claws to the New Frontier program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, to debut/field-test a short, two-person version of TendAR.
Following this invaluable experience workshopping our writing with the real live public, we went back to NYC and are now putting the finishing touches on our contributions to the full-length app—coming soon to a phone near you! Now, we know you're wondering—needless to say, a LOT of celebrities played TendAR at Sundance (ask us in person for the full red carpet rundown), but for a taste here's Piehole Jeff conducting some emotional calibration for methinks-protesting-too-much celebrity "non-couple" Suki Waterhouse and Darren Aronofsky in preparation for their TendAR experience. <<<<<<<<< Until we can officially announce TendAR's release date, please do imagine things to come in the form of this gallery of brave TendAR samplers at Sundance, and, coincidentally, people in some of the stranger poses we've seen with a cell phone... |
And, of course, stay tuned for more announcements from our erratic oven very soon...