Love Machine History
Satellite Love Story was first written and directed by Dave Tennent at Playwright Horizons Theater School in 2006 as part of the Creating Original Work program at NYU, Tisch.
Part 1 was presented in June 2012 as part of ANT Fest at Ars Nova, devising new material and adding interactive video to the character of Skylab.
Part 1 was presented in June 2012 as part of ANT Fest at Ars Nova, devising new material and adding interactive video to the character of Skylab.
Part 1 was given an encore performance at The Cookery Festival at The Robert Moss Theater, produced by Playwrights Horizons Theater School. In addition, the team was able to explore initial impulses for Part 2 and present the material as a work in progress, receiving valuable feedback from the audience.
Part 2 is shown at Fresh Ground Pepper's 5th Annual Birthday Party, featuring a monologue by Maxine 31.
Part 2 is shown at Fresh Ground Pepper's 5th Annual Birthday Party, featuring a monologue by Maxine 31.
Part 3 was presented with Part 2 at Brooklyn Fireproof in association with Imaginary Media Artists
Love Machine (Part 1, 2 & 3) premiered at Incubator Arts Project in May 2013.
Part 3 is reimagined with interactive and responsive elements, bringing the audience inside the VirtuLife experience, at the 3LD Salon Series in February 2014.
A paper analysing Love Machine is presented at the PIMA Symposium at Brooklyn College under the name Future Action Science Theater in February 2014.
Love Machine (Part 1, 2 & 3) premiered at Incubator Arts Project in May 2013.
Part 3 is reimagined with interactive and responsive elements, bringing the audience inside the VirtuLife experience, at the 3LD Salon Series in February 2014.
A paper analysing Love Machine is presented at the PIMA Symposium at Brooklyn College under the name Future Action Science Theater in February 2014.
Technology and Theater History:
2008:
Media Lounge, a festival of installations and performances by emerging artists working with digital, mechanical, and interactive tools at the Grace Exhibition Space.
2009:
The Office and The Metal Blob at The Cherry Lane. The show employed sound responsive video to realize their first digital character.
2010-2012:
Fresh Ground Pepper, a monthly development series gave an opportunity to curate events that focus on technology such as iSpace (an evening of internet theater) and FGP: Future (installations and performances about the world of tomorrow).
2011:
John Faustus and The Overclocked Death Drive at The Tank. The production, a modern adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus that materialized the devil via YouTube and a cross-dressing, iPad-wielding Mephistopheles, birthed a unique working method in which they create events, themes, and stage-pictures based on the possibilities of implemented technology.
2012:
All The Rats and Rags at 3LD/ Joe's Pub. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist set to the music of Brooklyn-based Tim Fite. The play brought to life a futuristic landscape of energy as well as a humanoid robot, both of which were made responsive through the successful integration of interactive iPad-based display techniques and a hacked X-Box Kinect.
2013:
Love Machine comes to fruition at Incubator Arts Project. Comprised of three short plays, the piece used responsive sound and video technology to tell the story of the love between human and machine.
2014:
As part of the Salon Series at 3LD, Part 3 is reimagined as an immersive, interactive experience. Using the audience's cell phones, gestures and a box that can bend and control sound, the digital world of VirtuLife is brought to life on four surrounding screens.
In Development: a new simulation-creation myth devised from the essay Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? and Karel and Josef Capek’s Adam the Creator.
Media Lounge, a festival of installations and performances by emerging artists working with digital, mechanical, and interactive tools at the Grace Exhibition Space.
2009:
The Office and The Metal Blob at The Cherry Lane. The show employed sound responsive video to realize their first digital character.
2010-2012:
Fresh Ground Pepper, a monthly development series gave an opportunity to curate events that focus on technology such as iSpace (an evening of internet theater) and FGP: Future (installations and performances about the world of tomorrow).
2011:
John Faustus and The Overclocked Death Drive at The Tank. The production, a modern adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus that materialized the devil via YouTube and a cross-dressing, iPad-wielding Mephistopheles, birthed a unique working method in which they create events, themes, and stage-pictures based on the possibilities of implemented technology.
2012:
All The Rats and Rags at 3LD/ Joe's Pub. A re-imagining of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist set to the music of Brooklyn-based Tim Fite. The play brought to life a futuristic landscape of energy as well as a humanoid robot, both of which were made responsive through the successful integration of interactive iPad-based display techniques and a hacked X-Box Kinect.
2013:
Love Machine comes to fruition at Incubator Arts Project. Comprised of three short plays, the piece used responsive sound and video technology to tell the story of the love between human and machine.
2014:
As part of the Salon Series at 3LD, Part 3 is reimagined as an immersive, interactive experience. Using the audience's cell phones, gestures and a box that can bend and control sound, the digital world of VirtuLife is brought to life on four surrounding screens.
In Development: a new simulation-creation myth devised from the essay Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? and Karel and Josef Capek’s Adam the Creator.