Cover image by Eileen Meny.
Tendar is officially available for download!
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Earlier in 2018 Piehole worked on a very new type of project with our friends over at Tender Claws (Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro): TendAR, an augmented reality app that 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.
Drawing on our experiences blurring boundaries in theater—between audience and performer, fiction and "real life," inanimate and living, joke and mistake—this new digital context has been immensely gratifying and expansive for us. And now we get to share it with you! Android users can download Tendar for free from Google Play. Have fun, but be careful! You never know what may happen when you give a digital pet too much of a taste of the human experience. |
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How do you create an individual experience that is a shared, live experience? (And vice versa)
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Piehole is working with playwright and screenwriter Celine Song on a brand new project called Tread on Me, Tread Softly. The aim is to create an audio-guided theater experience that explores citizenship, questioning what we’re willing to give up for the “greater good.” The guides feed competing perspectives and information to each audience member, which generate obstacles they must encounter in order to forge a functioning community.
Participants must occupy the same space as one community, and take care of their disparate, common, at times contradicting, demands, needs, and goals. Stay tuned as we continue to develop this piece in 2019! |
Celine Song, image by Matthew Dunivan
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ROUND ONE of Timeloop motion capture is in the bag!
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We spent most of September and October in the recording booth (both literal and virtual) with Tender Claws! What a wild ride! If you want to learn more about our experience and the nuances of AR and VR from a theater artist's perspective, head on over to the Notebook.
Stay tuned for broadcasts from ROUND TWO (coming this January - February). |
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