Jared Mezzocchi
An interview with Jared Mezzocchi, Producing Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse, based in Wilton, New Hampshire, and its new program, The Digital Renaissance Project. Mezzocchi discusses how the new project brings together professional artists and children, ages eight to eighteen, from around the world, in an equal playing-field collaboration. His students' success in virtual art making encourages him to re-imagine systems of education.
Virginia Grise
An interview with writer Virginia Grise about her virtual production of a farm for meme. She discusses chasing curiosity, gathering community, experimentation in collaboration, and healing the body through artistic practice. The upcoming production, in collaboration with “Innovations in Socially Distant Performance,” weaves organic aesthetics within a digital landscape, working to illuminate theatricality on a computer screen.
Ben Beckley and Asa Wember
An interview with Ben Beckley and Asa Wember who, together, created an individual immersive virtual experience specifically for quarantine. Guided by an alien species, listeners move around their home and interact with everyday objects as they gain an outside perspective to their human experience. Beckley and Wember piece together a post-apocalyptic story about a world eerily similar to our own and invite listeners to observe and question their reality.
Cerise Lim Jacobs
An interview with Cerise Lim Jacobs, opera creator, librettist, and Executive Producer of White Snake Projects about the live virtual concert “Sing Out Strong: DeColonized Voices,” her upcoming new opera Alice In The Pandemic, infusing traditions with advanced technology, and dismantling elitism in the opera.