How Frog Embryos Inspired The Last Word
Fareeda Pasha wrote The Last Word based on Michael Levin's research on the first robots from living cells. We had a lighthearted conversation about spooky action at a distance in playwriting, equal-op...
18 Feb 202534min
Interactive Audience Gameplay in Third Law
In this conversation with director Coral Cohen and sound and video designer Ettie Pin, we discuss the process of making a gamified play, Third Law. Insights from the makers take us through game theory...
11 Feb 202540min
Theatre By and For Gamers
In this episode, Emma Bexell from Bombina Bombast, a performing arts company in Malmö, Sweden, takes us to the space of gamified society and theatre. Bombina Bombast combines documentary audio, gaming...
14 Mar 202439min
Aerial Performance in a Wheelchair
Disabled choreographer, dancer, designer, engineer, and founding member of Kinetic Light, Laurel Lawson talks about performing aerially in a wheelchair, accessibility as its own artform rather than an...
7 Mar 202441min
Gore and Myth in Theatre Mitu's (holy) BLOOD
In this episode we talk with the founding artistic director of Theater Mitu, Rubén Polendo, about the hope for the future that inspired Utopian Hotline—now traveling through space as part of the Golde...
29 Feb 202443min
Science Theories Are Like Swiss Cheese
Annemarie Hagenaars is an astronomer, physicist, and actress. In this playful conversation with Tjaša, Annemarie speculates about Einstein's famous equations, love, and shares her own experiment that ...
22 Feb 202442min
Finding the Individual in Your Digital Choreography Library
LaJuné shares about the inception of Black Movement Library: a database of motion capture data from Black folks they created, while seeking to avoid the paradigms of erasure, extraction, and exploitat...
15 Feb 202433min
A Circus Robot’s Death-Defying Act
Our guest, Josh Corn, is a true renaissance man. He uses technology to tell absurd and subversive stories about humanity. Josh built René—the most technologically advanced robotic arm from 2002, who h...
8 Feb 202439min
