#blast theory

[mediaac]

Along with Botfighters, Can You See Me Now? is one of the first location based games. Online players compete against members of Blast Theory on the streets. Tracked by satellites, Blast Theory's runners appear online next to your player on a map of the city. On the streets, handheld computers showing the positions of online players guide the runners in tracking you down.

[thespacearts]

Bloodyminded is Europe's first ever interactive live streamed feature film, shot in a single take and broadcast to cinemas and online – for one night only. Watch live on 14 October 2018  https://www.bloodyminded.org/

[alporquia]

10 Backwards, Blast Theory. 1999.

[thatartblog]

Blast Theory, The Thing I'll Be Doing For The Rest Of My Life, public acts, Nagoya, Japan (2003) — Excerpt

via Blast Theory:

“A crowd of volunteers drag a trawler out of the water and onto the land, dragging the tralwer by ropes in the fierce heat of a Nagoya summer. The effort is enormous and the work is hard. A fisherman donated the trawler to the project from Toyohama, it used to belong to his dad and he was totally behind the whole process. He later tells Ju that he is an ambassador for fishing as a way of life and goes into schools talking about his profession and how good fish is for you in your diet.

10 days later a crane lifts the boat onto a lorry at the Nagoya Port and it is driven into the city centre at midnight. Crowds gather to watch along the route and as the lorry arrives at the park, the boats’ final resting place.

People bring food and drink, make videos, photos, hang out, worry and look on, as the 30 tonne craft is lifted once more into its’ final position. They stay from Midnight until 5 in the morning and then at 9 in the morning they come back again, except there are more of them. This time we all push the trawler into its’ final position in the park near Wakamiya Odori Crossing, where it sits for the next three months.

A young boy climbs onto the boat, carrying a megaphone and on the prow of the boat he tells a story to the people who pushed. It is a story about a time when he was in San Francisco when a disaster struck; it was about him in the disaster in Mexico. He tells us about cafes spontaneously formed by survivors. He tells us how ordinary men and women respond with heroism and solidarity. He tells us how order was created by the people who got there before the rescue services and the press.

As if time travelling backwards and forwards through disasters over the last hundred years, he puts the boat and the volunteers efforts into context.”

[putdownthatdrone]

A message from Karen | Blast Theory - YouTube

Looking for a life coach? Karen is happy to help you work out a few things in your life. She recorded this video to tell you all about it. Karen is an inter...

Check out the Blast Theory site for more great creative storytelling. http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/our-work/

Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores the social and political aspects of technology. Drawing on popular culture and games, the work often blurs the boundaries between the real and the fictional.

[joachimvlieghe]

Awesome project that use persuasive techniques and stealth measurement (psychometric tests) to create a 10-day immersive and adaptive digital experience through your mobile device.

[joachimvlieghe]

An interesting project by Blast Theory, created in collaboration with my colleague and dear friend Dr. Kelly L. Page.

Here’s a little snippet from the project’s website about how and why the app was created:

“When John McGrath asked us to develop a project with National Theatre Wales in 2013 we were keen to create a personal and intimate experience for smartphones in which you interact directly with the lead character. We wanted you to be challenged about how honest and open you might be and to experience the thrill of having your personality appraised. We became fascinated with big data, and particularly how governments and large companies such as Facebook are collecting data on us secretly and using it without our consent. When we met Dr Kelly Page – an expert in this area – we learnt about the various techniques developed by psychologists to measure personalities. Researcher Geraldine Nichols spent a few months visiting libraries and archives in Wales and England to delve into the history. She helped us trace back to Assessment of Men by the Office of Strategic Services: a book published just after World War Two that helped the military recruit undercover operatives. From there we rifled through hundreds of personality tests across the decades. We chose some of the most fascinating, unnerving or significant scales that we found and wove them into the story of Karen, a divorcee with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.We feel it’s our job as artists to pose questions about this new world where technology is ever more personalised and intrusive. We love having our services tailored to us and we’re scared of the price we’re paying for that personalisation. Karen is a system that gets to know you. She/it uses data about your behaviour – whether freely given or obtained by monitoring – to give you an experience that is personalised, adaptive and intriguing.”

If you are interested to try the app out, please feel free to download it via the AppStore or through GooglePlay.

[theatrebubble]

Ones To Watch: Sharklegs Theatre

Ones To Watch: Sharklegs Theatre

In Ones To Watch, we talk to the theatre companies on the brink of something big – the companies you haven’t heard of yet, but you will.

Sharklegs are a theatre company made up of Kezia Cole and Richard Hay, who are currently Associate Artists with The Point Theatre, Eastleigh. They won the Les Enfants Terribles Award this year with their show The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole, which…

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