A platform showcasing novel and timely perspectives from makers and researchers across the expanded immersive field; including immersive theatre and embodied live practices, interactive digital narrative and XR alongside platform agnostic design approaches. We will consider how developments in immersive storytelling are shaped by current funding and production realities while reflecting on the evolution of new forms within the context of Media Arts and Digital Performance history.

About Jason
Jason has written and produced plays, created and collaborated on performance at many different scales. Projects have included work theatres and digital performance labs, including Contact in Manchester and Culturehub in NYC, building multi-sited events that united remote performers and audiences from different time zones, on one stage.

Jason Crouch’s Thesis
Mediated messages – Jason Crouch
https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619496

Collaborators & colleagues
Culturehub, NYC

Gateshead International Festival of Theatre
International Festival of Theatre (GIFT)
Twitter: @GIFTfest

Pinheiro & Lisa Parra
https://daniel-pinheiro.tumblr…

Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir
https://www.gudrunsoley.com/ab…

Paula Varjack
Twitter: @paulavarjack
http://paulavarjack.com/about….

Audre Lorde
(link is to a new collection of her work edited by Reni Eddo-Lodge)
https://www.theguardian.com/bo…

Raymond Williams
The Technology and the Society (1974)

David Buckingham
Introducing Identity (2008),
book chapter ‘Youth, Identity, and Digital Media’

Dan Hill
https://www.cityofsound.com/bl…

McGrath, in conversation with Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
http://exeuntmagazine.com/podc…

Chris Thorpe, Theatre is a Laboratory
https://www.theguardian.com/st…

Social capital: networking in Generation X.’ The Generation X Report.
A Quarterly Research Report from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth
Miller, J. D. (2013)
http://lsay.org/GenX_Vol2Iss2….

Tim Etchells
http://timetchells.com/

Artwork and Artists
Hole in Space (1980)
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz

Hello (1969)
Allan Kaprow
(final segment in The Medium is the Medium)

You With Me
Artistic Director of Kaleider, Seth Honnor discussing You With Me
https://vimeo.com/119760810

Forced Entertainment
Twitter: @ForcedEnts
End Meeting For All
https://www.forcedentertainmen…

Hidden Track – Playful, political theatre
Twitter: @HiddenTrackTC
https://hiddentrack.org.uk/

Coney – interactive theatre makers – creating games, adventures and play where people can choose to take a meaningful part
Twitter: @agencyofconey
https://coneyhq.org/

Punchdrunk enrichment
https://www.punchdrunk.org.uk/…

Lemn Sissay
@lemnsissay
https://www.lemnsissay.com/

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble – Algorythms of Oppression
https://safiyaunoble.com/

Cathy O’Neil – Weapons of Math Destruction
https://mathbabe.org/

Algorithmic Justice League
https://www.ajlunited.org

Facebook influencing the emotions of users
https://www.theguardian.com/te… this article:

Companies

StoryFutures